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CAREER SUMMARY
- Head of Department/Senior Lecturer (2017 – date)
Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Sri Lanka.
- Research Associate (2005 – 2017)
Department of Materials, Loughborough University, UK.
- Research Fellow (2001-2004)
School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, UK.
- PhD candidate (1996-2001)
Department of Materials and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK
- Lecturer (1994-1996)
Department of Materials, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy
University of Cambridge (2001)
- BSc Eng (First Class Honours) in Materials Engineering
University of Moratuwa (1994)
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP
Research Interests
- High temperature materials
- Nickel base superalloys
- 9Cr steels, Materials modelling
- High performance computing in materials science
- Thermodynamics
- Coupled thermodynamics/kinetic modelling
- Diffusion in multicomponent systems
- Diffusion in semiconductor materials, Si and SiGe.
Memberships
- Affiliate Member
Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)
- Committee Member
Materials Chemistry Committee, IOM3
PUBLICATIONS
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Modelling of the microsegregation in CMSX-4 superalloy and its homogenisation during heat treatment
M. S. A. Karunaratne, D. C. Cox, P. Carter and R. C. Reed, (Superalloys 2000)
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Diffusion in SiGe: defect injection studies on Sb, As and B
J. M. Bonar, S. Uppal, M. S. A. Karunaratne, A. F. Willoughby, “Electrochemical Society Proceedings” , pp. 903-914
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Effect of fluorine implantation dose on boron thermal diffusion in silicon
H. A. W. El Mubarek, J. M. Bonar, G. D. Dilliway, P. Ashburn, M. Karunaratne, A. F. Willoughby, Y. Wang, P. L. F. Hemment, R. Price, J. Zhang and P. Ward, “Journal of applied physics” , pp. 4114-4121
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Interdiffusion of the platinum-group metals in nickel at elevated temperatures
M. S. A. Karunaratne and R. C. Reed, “Acta Materialia” , pp. 2905-2919
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On the diffusion of aluminium and titanium in the Ni-rich Ni-Al-Ti system between 900 and 1200°C
M. S. A Karunaratne, P. Carter and R. C. Reed, “Acta Materialia” , pp. 861-875
