Positions

  • present2004

    Chair Professor

    Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

  • present2012

    Senior Professor

    Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

  • 20041995

    Senior Lecturer

    Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

  • 19931989

    Lecturer

    Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

  • present2006

    Visiting Scientist

    Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard University, Boston, U.S.A.

  • 20222018

    Board Member

    Inter-Academy Partnership for Research (IAP-R), Global network of Science Academies.

  • 20182016

    Board Member

    Scientific Review Board, National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, USA.

  • present2013

    Board Member

    Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), Association of Academies and Societies of Asia (AASSA)

  • present2010

    Council Member

    Governance Council, Genomic Epidemiology of Malaria Project (MalariaGEN), University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

  • 20172000

    Head of Department

    Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Colombo

  • 20062005

    Senior Research Fellow

    Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A

  • 20071996

    Consultant / Advisor

    Strategic Research Steering Committee on Pathogenesis and Functional Genomics (TDR), World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva.

  • 19951993

    Post-doctoral Fellow

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom