Senior Lecturer
Department of Materials Technology,
Faculty of Technology,
Rajarata University of Sri Lanka,
Mihintale, Sri Lanka.
ndharmag@tec.rjt.ac.lk
Tel: +94 712248082
Education
- PhD in Materials Science and Engineering 2011- 2017 State University of New York at Stony Brook (Stony Brook University), New York, USA
- MS in Materials Science 2009-2011 Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri USA
- BSc in Applied Sciences 2004-2008 University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Research Interests
- Clay and Minerals
- XRD
- Activated carbon based supercapacitors
- Materials Science in Archeology
Past Employment
- Head of the Department, Department of Materials Technology, the Faculty of Technology, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka 08/2019- to date
- Coordinator/Senior lecturer in Science Industry Interaction Cell, Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya 03/2017 to 03/2019
- Research and Teaching Assistant at Stony Brook University 08/2011 to 12/2016
- Graduate Teaching Assistant at Missouri State University 08/2009 to 06/2011
- Operation’s Manager, Blue Bay Minerals International, Pilimathalawa, Sri Lanka 08/2008 to 08/2009
Publications
- Dharmagunawardhane, HA Naveen, Alwin James, Qiyuan Wu, William R. Woerner, Robert M. Palomino, Alexandra Sinclair, Alexander Orlov, and John B. Parise. “Unexpected visible light driven photocatalytic activity without cocatalysts and sacrificial reagents from a (GaN)1–x (ZnO)x solid solution synthesized at high pressure over the entire composition range.” RSC Advances 8, no. 16 (2018): 8976-8982.).
- Woerner, W. R., Qian, G. R., Oganov, A. R., Stephens, P. W., Dharmagunawardhane, H. N., Sinclair, A., & Parise, J. B.. Combined Theoretical and in Situ Scattering Strategies for Optimized Discovery and Recovery of High-Pressure Phases: A Case Study of the GaN–Nb2O5 System. Inorganic Chemistry, 2016, 55(7), 3384-3392.
- Dharmagunawardhane, H. N., Woerner, W. R., Wu, Q., Huang, H., Chen, X., Orlov, A., … & Parise, J. B.. Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution using nanocrystalline gallium oxynitride spinel. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2014, 2(45), 19247-19252.
- Mayanovic, R. A., Anderson, A. J., Dharmagunawardhane, H. A., Pascarelli, S., & Aquilanti, G.. Monitoring synchrotron X-ray-induced radiolysis effects on metal (Fe, W) ions in high-temperature aqueous fluids. Journal of synchrotron radiation, 2012,19(5), 797-805.
