Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Sudantha Liyanage
Department of Chemistry, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences
Prof. Sudantha obtained his B.Sc. Special degree in Chemistry at University of Sri Jayewardenepura and obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry, at University of Wales, Cardiff,UK. He was also a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at University of Wales, Cardiff and University of Ibaraki, Japan. He was the Chairman of the Royal Society of Chemistry Sri Lanka Section during 2013- 2014. He told Japura Media that his ultimate goal is to make the Faculty as the best Faculty of Science in the Sri Lankan university system.
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. K. K. D. S. Ranaweera
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
Director to the Bandaranaike Memorial Ayurveda Research Institute
(BMARI).
Board of Governors in Institute of Food Science and Technology Sri
Lanka.
M.Sc, Ph.D. (Academy of Science, USSR), Fellow Post Doc(UK)
Prof.
K.K.D.S. Ranaweera currently working as the Director to the
Bandaranaike Memorial Ayurveda Research Institute (BMARI) at
Maharagama and a Member of Board of Governors in Institute of Food
Science and Technology Sri Lanka. Till September 2011 he headed the
Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Sri
Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. He is supervising PhD, MPhil and MSc
students of areas related to Food Science and Technology and Human
Nutrition. Prof. Ranaweera also worked in different areas of work
like Java World Congress (JWC) 2010, an International event where
they build up Social capital to help achieving Millennium
Development Goals. International Potash Institute is another
institute he works for.
Research interests: Food Processing and Post Harvest Sciences,
Functional Foods
