Prof. M. M. Pathmalal appointed Dean of USJ’s Graduate Studies Faculty for the second time

Prof. M. M. Pathmalal was appointed as the new Dean of the Graduate Studies Faculty at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and he began his duties this week. He was appointed as the 6th Dean of the Graduate Studies Faculty for the second time.

Senior Professor M. M. Pathmalal is a professor of Zoology, the Co-chair of the Research Council and the director of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura’s Centre for Water Quality and Algae Research.

He received his BSc (Honours) Degree with a first-class from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in 1992, an MSc from the Department of Life Conservation Science in 1998, and a PhD from the Department of Microbial Ecology and Eco-toxicology of Japan’s Ehime University in 2001.

Prof. Pathmalal is a distinguished, highly cited researcher in eco-toxicology, water quality, bioremediation of natural and xenobiotic chemicals, and cyanotoxin, and has blazed track with the number of world-first records for the scientific field.

Internationally, Prof. Pathmalal is an incumbent honorary fellow scientist of Robert Gordon University in the UK and Sydney University of Australia and has held many post-doctoral fellowships, namely, at the Institute of the Advanced Science and Technology, the Institute of Health and Safety Research of Japan, the Department of Phototoxin, School of Pharmacology, Robert Gordon University in the UK, Leverhulme Trust Post-Doctoral Visiting Research Fellowship UK, Global Centre for Environmental Studies at Japan’s Ehime University, the UK’s Commonwealth Research Fellowship and the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council Science.