Uhanovitage Rushanthi Chandimala is a Probationary Lecturer in the University of Colombo Institute for Agro-Technology & Rural Sciences. She graduated with BSc. Honors Agricultural Resource Management & Technology with a First Class from the University of Ruhuna, Faculty of Agriculture. She was awarded Upali Wijayawardhana Memorial Gold Medal Award and Mallika De Mal Memorial Gold Medal Award from the University of Ruhuna in the year 2017 for her Excellency in Academic Performance in her bachelor’s. She completed her Master’s degree in Food Science & Technology at the University of Peradeniya in 2021. She was awarded the Stipendium Hungaricum Ph.D. Scholarship in the year 2023 to conduct her Doctoral level studies in the field of Food Science at the Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary. Her research areas of interest include Food Science & Technology, Food & Nutrition, Food Microbiology, Food Biotechnology, and Animal Sciences.
Lecturer Probationary
Department of Agro-technology, University of Colombo Institute for Agro-Technology & Rural Sciences