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.