Chamari Hettiarachchi PhD

Dr Chamari Hettiarachchi, senior lecturer in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo. She obtained her BSc Honors (Botany) from University of Colombo and PhD in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry from (International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Dr Hettiarachchi has conducted her postdoctoral research at Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and she was a visiting scientist at Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Her specialization and research interest is in plant Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Since 2003 she has received 6 international and national research grants and she has more than twenty publications in indexed international journals and more than 75 research communications. She is a recipient of SUSRED award 2013, National Science Foundation for the supervision of postgraduate research degree and presidential awards in 2012 and 2017.