Yearly Archives: 2021

Ms. Rizana Azees, a student of the Department of Chemistry, University of Sri Jayewardenepura won first place in the Inter-University undergraduate thesis competition in Chemistry and Biochemistry-2021 organized by Sri Lanka Association of Advancement of Science (SLAAS), held on 2^nd October 2021. She won the gold medal out of 13 contestants who participated in the final round from various universities and higher educational institutes in Sri Lanka. The title of her undergraduate thesis was “Microwave-assisted one-pot multicomponent synthesis of indole derived fluorometric probe for detection of Co²⁺ ions”. The research mainly focused on the synthesis of 3-substituted indole derived chemosensor using the green synthetic approach to detect Co²⁺ ions in micro-molar concentrations. The project was supervised by Dr. Upul Kumarasinghe and Co-supervised by Dr. Asitha Cooray at the Department of Chemistry, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Department of Chemistry congratulates Ms. Rizana on her achievement.

Prof. N M S Sirimuthu, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Sri Jayewardenepura is appointed as the commissioner of Sri Lanka Inventors Commission. Professor Sirimuthu obtained his B.Sc degree in chemistry from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and a PhD degree from the Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom. Following that he completed multiple postdoctoral fellowships in Queen’s University, Belfast, UK, National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland, University of Glasgow, UK, and the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK before he joined as a senior lecturer at the Department of Chemistry University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Professor Sirimutu is a highly cited researcher with a h-index of 17 with more than 40 peer-reviewed papers.