Dr. Prabhat Khanal is an associate professor of sustainable animal nutrition at the Faculty of Bioscience and Aquaculture (FBA), Nord University, Norway. Dr. Khanal completed his Master in Agriculture from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Later, he completed his PhD in Nutrition and Physiology from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He also held Marie-Curie status Scientific Fellow post-doc position in Nutrition and Lipid droplets at the Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo. Dr. Khanal is a nutritional physiologist, and his current research focuses on the identification, characterization, and utilization of novel and alternative sources of feed and food. In particular, he aims to evaluate and characterize a wide range of insect species as a future protein source for animal feed and human food applications. Moreover, his research is also focused on the evaluation of the nutritional and bioactive potential of marine macroalgae and fresh-water macrophytes. Dr. Khanal has published 28 scientific articles and participated in 24 international conferences, seminars, and symposiums. He has been involved in the supervision of 2 post-doctoral researchers, 8 PhD students, and several master's and bachelor's students. He teaches various subjects within sustainable animal nutrition to graduate and undergraduate students. He is an adjunct scientist at Gandaki Province Academy of Science and Technology, Pokhara, Nepal. Dr. Khanal is the principal investigator of a collaborative project between Nord University, Norway, Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal, and Kathmandu University, Nepal: Establishing the Circular Economy-based livestock sector through collaborative Educational and Research activities (CEER) that involves 5 PhD and more than 30 master students.