Bandana Mainali holds a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy from Kathmandu University in Nepal and a Master's degree in BioHealth Engineering from the University of Grenoble Alpes in France. She is interested in clinically relevant translational research, focusing on inner ear disorders, environmental health, genetics, and bioinformatics. Bandana is currently a PhD student at the University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research investigates the prevalence of vestibular loss (across different subgroups, including age, sex, and comorbidities) and aims to identify the environmental and genetic risk factors associated with vestibular loss using large multimodal datasets.