Department of Physics

I graduated from the University of Peradeniya in 2006 with a B.Sc. with honors in Physics. Upon graduation, I worked as a temporary demonstrator in the Physics department for a year.
In 2007, I entered the Washington University in St. Louis and obtained my PhD in physics in 2013, where I specialized in biophysics of cell mechanics. Investigated the effects of the network structure on intracellular force generation via simulation of myosin mini-filament motion through a random actin network and demonstrated the generality of actomyosin contractility for the first time.
My main research interests are in the field of computational biophysics.