{"id":7,"date":"2026-07-20T05:23:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/sohan-costa\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:55:29","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/sohan-costa\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image source=&#8221;external_link&#8221; external_img_size=&#8221;300&#215;300&#8243; custom_src=&#8221;https:\/\/sohansanjay.github.io\/assets\/img\/scosta-480.webp&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>Dr. Sohan Costa<\/h1>\n<h4 class=\"small-text\"><strong>PROBATIONARY LECTURER<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Department of Physics<br \/>\nUniversity of Colombo<br \/>\nColombo 00300<br \/>\nSri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Office: Department of Physics \u2013 Room No.303<br \/>\nEmail: sohan@phys.cmb.ac.lk[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<h1 class=\"fac-big-title fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#4b4b4b\">Academic &amp; Professional Qualifications<\/h1>\n<ul class=\"ul-card \">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\"><div class=\"dy\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"degree\">PhD<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"description\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"what\">Phd in Physics<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"where\">University of Tennessee, Knoxville<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\"><div class=\"dy\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"degree\">MSc<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"year\">2025<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"description\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"what\">MSc in Physics<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"where\">University of Tennessee, Knoxville<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\"><div class=\"dy\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"degree\">BSc<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"year\">2018<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"description\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"what\">BSc in Engineering Physics (Hons) <\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"where\">University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<h1 class=\"fac-big-title fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#4b4b4b\">Research Interests<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<ul class=\"ul-boxed list-unstyled\"><li class=\"\">Strongly correlated matter<\/li><li class=\"\">Material modeling<\/li><li class=\"\">DQMC (Determinant Quantum Monte Carlo) and other Monte Carlo techniques<\/li><li class=\"\">Artificial Intelligence techniques in physics<\/li><li class=\"\">Layered Materials<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image source=&#8221;external_link&#8221; external_img_size=&#8221;300&#215;300&#8243; custom_src=&#8221;https:\/\/sohansanjay.github.io\/assets\/img\/scosta-480.webp&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text] Dr. Sohan Costa PROBATIONARY LECTURER Department of Physics University of Colombo Colombo 00300 Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"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\/physics\/sohan-costa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/sohan-costa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/sohan-costa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/sohan-costa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/sohan-costa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/sohan-costa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/sohan-costa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/physics\/sohan-costa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}