Bishal Diganta holds a Master’s degree in Health and Society in South Asia from Heidelberg University (2021) and another one in Sociology from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (2017). He has previously worked in the GeKo Project (2020) funded by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany, as a data analyst (2020) for Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, and in SUTRA (Himachal Pradesh), India. He is currently working as Research Data Manager in the project ‘Heritage as Placemaking (HAP)’, funded by the Riksbankens Jubilieumsfond, Sweden. Within NHDP, Bishal is responsible for database management and synchronization between DANAM and HeidICON.

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