CAREER SUMMARY

• November 2021 to date – Emeritus Professor in Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa.
• October 2021 to date – Consultant Professor, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Malabe, Sri Lanka.
• December 2006 to September 2021 – Senior Professor in Civil Engineering, attached to the Division of Building & Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
• May 2014 to May 2017 – Director, Office of Research, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
• November to December 2012 – Endeavour Executive Awardee at Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne (Study areas – sustainability, nanotechnology, vulnerability).
• July 2011 – Visiting Research Fellow at Systems Centre, University of Bristol, U.K. (Study area – Systems thinking and approaches).
• April 2011 – Alexander S. Onassis Fellow, based in Athens, Greece (Study area – Ancient Greek temples as analogical sources for Anaximander’s model of the cosmos).
• June 2007 to June 2010 – Head, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
• December 1998 to December 2006 – Professor in Civil Engineering, attached to the Division of Building & Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
• August 2000 to April 2001 – Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A. (Research Areas – Philosophy of Engineering and Engineering Design)
• June 1995 to December 1998 – Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, attached to the Division of Building & Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
• June 1986 to June 1995 – Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering (Grade II from 1986-1992 and Grade I from 1992 to 1995), attached to the Division of Building & Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
• October 1992 to July 1993 – Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. (General Research Area – Civil Engineering Systems; Specific Research Areas – Conceptual modelling, Philosophy of Engineering).
• October 1982 to May 1986 – Research Scholar at Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, while on study leave from the University of Moratuwa. (General research area – Concrete Structures; Specific research topic – Thermal Creep of Hardened Cement Paste.)
• April 1981 to September 1982 – Asst. Lecturer in Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
• July 1978 to April, 1979 – Engineering Trainee with Department of Buildings, Sri Lanka.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BSc(Eng)(Hons.) – University of Moratuwa, 1980.
• PhD – University of London, 1986.
• DIC – Imperial College of Science & Technology, London, 1986.

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP