{"id":14,"date":"2018-09-18T01:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T07:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/chemistry\/nalin-desilva\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2021-02-06T04:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T09:41:32","slug":"appointments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/chemistry\/nalin-desilva\/appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Chair Senior Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (Jan 2021 &#8211; to date)<\/li>\n<li>Head of the Department, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (August 2020 &#8211; to date)<\/li>\n<li>Senior Professor in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (Feb 2013 \u2013 December 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Professor in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Feb 2005 \u2013 Jan 2013) (<strong>Directly promoted to full Professor from Senior Lecturer Grade II just after 6 years from the PhD and became the youngest Professor (Age 39) in the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>Science Team Leader, Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC), Nanotechnology and Science Park, Mahenwatta, Pitipana, Homagama, Sri Lanka. (May 2012 \u2013 April 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Research and Development Consultant, Haycarb PLC, Sri Lanka, 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Research and Development Consultant, Global Rubber Industries, Sri Lanka (2017 &#8211; 2019)<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Consultant, Department of Chemistry, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman. (September 2011 to January 2012)<\/li>\n<li>Senior Lecturer II, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Oct 1998 \u2013 Feb 2005).<\/li>\n<li>Director, Career Guidance Unit, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (July 2003 \u2013 March 2005)<\/li>\n<li>Director, Graduate Foundation, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (November 2003 \u2013 March 2005)<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Lecturer, American National College (ANC), Colombo (Adjunct Faculty Member \u2013 Patten University, California, USA), 2004 \u2013 to date.<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Lecturer, Monash College affiliated to Monash University, American National College, 2007 \u2013 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. (1993 &#8211; 1998), Promoted to Senior Lecturer after the Ph.D. (Study leave during 1994 \u2013 1998).<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Lecturer, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. (2001 \u2013 2003).<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Lecturer, University of Sri Jayawardhanpura, Sri Lanka. (2000-2001 ).<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Chemistry, Sri Lanka (2000 \u2013 2003 )<\/li>\n<li>Supervisor, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK. (1997 &#8211; 1998).<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrator, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK. (1994 &#8211; 1998).<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. 1992-1993.<\/li>\n<li>Teaching Assistant, Institute of Chemistry, Sri Lanka. 1992-1994<\/li>\n<li>Management Trainee, Lanka Polythene Industry, Sri Lanka. 1987-1990<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chair Senior Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (Jan 2021 &#8211; to date) Head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/chemistry\/nalin-desilva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/chemistry\/nalin-desilva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/chemistry\/nalin-desilva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/chemistry\/nalin-desilva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/chemistry\/nalin-desilva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/chemistry\/nalin-desilva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/chemistry\/nalin-desilva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/chemistry\/nalin-desilva\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}