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PhD, Water and Environmental Engineering, QUT, 2020 MPhil, Environmental Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, 2013 BSc (First Class Honours), Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Chaamila is a doctoral student at the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Queensland University of Technology (since 2016) and a lecturer in Department of Forestry and Environmental Science at University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.
Research Interests
- Water pollution and wastewater treatment
- Sorption of organic and inorganic contaminants
- Sorption modelling
- Multivariate analysis
Current project
Accurately predicting the performance of biosorbents is important for developing biosorbent based treatment methods. Sorption performance mainly depends on material physico-chemical properties and experimental conditions applied to the system. Although the influence of experimental conditions on sorption efficiency is generally understood, the influence of physico-chemical properties of biosorbents has neither been systematically investigated, nor quantitatively assessed. Mathematical models are developed to aid in making decisions on modifying physico-chemical properties of biosorbents, with the aim of increasing their sorption performance for heavy metals, thereby providing essential information in the design of effective, biosorbent-based, treatment systems.