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Resume

 

QUALIFICATIONS     

• Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Monash University, 2007
• Ph.D - Rock Engineering, University of Wollongong, 2000
• BSC (Hons)- First class Honors Degree (Gold Medalist) in Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, December 1995
  
  

 

AWARDS    

• Australian Future Fellowship Award, ARC, Australia (for 4 years from 2010to2014)- I was one of only three fellowships given to Civil Engineering discipline in Australia (2010)
• ECR Vice Chancellor’s Award Nominee for Excellence in Research (2010)
• ECR Dean’s Research Award for Excellence in Research (2010)
• Australian Academy of Science Award (2007)
• Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarship (OPRS) and University Postgraduate Award (UPA ) for PhD program at University of Wollongong, Australia in Civil Engineering (1997)
• Undergraduate Dissertation Prize - University of Reading , U.K (1996)
• UNESCO Gold Medallist for outstanding result in all degree programs (Ranked No. 1 in all Engineering disciplines, out of 1000 graduates), University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (1996)
  
  

EMPLOYMENT         

• 2010 – ARC Future Fellow,
• 2010- Director of Research
• 2003 - 2009 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Civil Eng, Monash University
• 2001 - 2003 Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• 1996-1997 Lecturer, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
  
  

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES                     

• Fellow Member of Engineers Australia
• American Society of Civil Engineering, Member
• American Rock Mechanics Association, Charter Member
• American Geophysical Union, Member
• International Society of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science
• Society of Petroleum Engineering
  
  
  
  
  

RESEARCH INTERESTS                    

• Characterisation of rocks under high pressure and high temperature-Geothermal
• Geosequestration of carbon dioxide.
• Wellbore stability and Sand production.
• Drilling/peneration-Rock mass data.
• Multi phase flow through rocks to enhance oil recovery
• Development of stimulation methods for recovery of gas/oil from unconventional reservoirs
• Permeability of rock mass wrt to oil and gas recovery.
• Slope stability of deep-large open cut mines
• Enhanced Coal Bed Methane recovery and migration of gases with CO2 sequestration
• Contaminant transport through rock
• Storage of chemical/nuclear waste in underground caverns
• Characterization of weathered rocks
• Gas outbursts and groundwater inundation in mines