Awards and grants

• 2013
  Hiran Thilakarathne Special Award

  2013 National award of “Hiran Thilakarathne Special Award for Outstanding Postgraduate Research in the Field of Agriculture during the period of 2012 - 2013” by the University Grant Commission of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2013
  Award of Best Presenter

  2013 Award of Best Presenter, Session of Plant Microbial Interaction, 25th Annual Congress, Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka,
• 2014
  Trawling Fellowship

  2014 Trawling Fellowship, National Science Foundation Sri Lanka
• 2017
  Overseas Special Training Programme Fellowship

  OSTP- Overseas Special Training Programme Fellowship, National Science Foundation Sri Lanka
• 2015
  NRC Merit Award

  NRC Merit Award for Scientific Publication– 2015, National Research Council of Sri Lanka for the publication in Analysis of a differentially-expressed gene profile in resistant banana cultivar after infection by Colletotrichum musae. Physiology and Molecular Plant Pathology 2015. 92, 88-100.
• 2018
  The Best Research

  The Best Research – 2018, 7th Young Scientist Forum Symposium, National Science and Technology Commission for the JMAM Sewwandi N Thiruchchelvan UM Aruna Kumara, 2018. Acceptability and proximate evaluation of a new biscuit developed using Pouteria campechina `{`Lavulu`}` fruit flour, Proceeding of 7th Young Scientist Forum Symposium, National Science and Technology Commission, 7 (1): 133-135.