{"id":5148,"date":"2025-03-10T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/?page_id=5148"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:39:48","slug":"former-heads-of-the-department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/former-heads-of-the-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Former\u00a0Heads\u00a0of the Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Prof. N. G. S. Shantha Gamage<\/p>\n\n

April 2022 to April 2025<\/p>\n

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Prof. A. R. Kumarasinghe<\/p>\n\n

April 2019 to March 2022<\/p>\n

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Dr. W. D. A. T. Wijeratne<\/p>\n\n

January 2017 to March 2019<\/p>\n

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Dr. N. G. S. Shantha Gamage<\/p>\n\n

August 2016 to January 2017<\/p>\n

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Dr. Pathmasiri Geekiyanage<\/p>\n\n

July 2012 to July 2016<\/p>\n

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Prof. C. P. Abayaratne<\/p>\n\n

July 2009 to June 2012<\/p>\n

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Mr. M. G. C. Pieris<\/p>\n\n

July 2001 to June 2009<\/p>\n

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Prof. D. A. Tantrigoda<\/p>\n

Former Dean\/ Faculty of Graduate studies<\/p>\n

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Prof. P. C. B. Fernando<\/p>\n\n

Founder Professor of the Department; Former Dean\/ Faculty of Applied Sciences<\/p>\n

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Dr. M. P. Wijesinghe<\/p>\n\n

(Founder Dean\/ Faculty of Applied Sciences)<\/p>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Prof. N. G. S. Shantha Gamage April 2022 to April 2025 Prof. A. R. Kumarasinghe April 2019 to March 2022 Dr. W. D. A. T. Wijeratne January 2017 to March 2019 Dr. N. G. S. Shantha Gamage August 2016 to January 2017 Dr. Pathmasiri Geekiyanage July 2012 to July 2016 Prof. C. P. Abayaratne … Continue reading Former\u00a0Heads\u00a0of the Department<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5148\/revisions\/5483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}