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Dr. Asitha Cooray has been awarded the President’s Award for Scientific Research for his
contribution to highly-rated scientific research published in 2019 and 2020. The awards were
presented to the research articles, Halloysite nano clay supported adsorptive removal of
oxytetracycline antibiotic from aqueous media, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol 384, Article
No. 121301 and Heavy metal dissolution mechanisms from electrical industrial waste, Science of
The Total Environment, Vol 696, Article No.133922.

The World Academy of Sciences Council has announced the winners of four of its
prestigious awards (2023 TWAS-Abdool Karim Award, 2023 TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman
Award, 2023 TWAS-Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi Award, and 2024 TWAS-Siwei Cheng Award
in Economic Sciences) for enterprising and accomplished scientists living and working
in the global South.

All four winners are women. Also, two of the winners are from the Least Developed
Countries, Burkina Faso and Malawi. The other two are from Sri Lanka and China.
The awards provide a powerful incentive for developing world scientists to excel on new
levels while bringing much-deserved global recognition to their achievements and
inspiring others to follow in their footsteps.

Dr. Imalka Munaweera, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Sciences received
2023 TWAS-Atta-ur-Rahman Award in Chemistry, for her contributions to the
development of engineered inorganic nanostructures and nanofiber composites that
may have multidisciplinary applications.

Read more: https://twas.org/article/twas-names-four-new-awardees