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About Chandana Professor K P S Chandana Jayaratne Professor K P S Chandana Jayaratne is a Professor in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Colombo, Colombo-03, Sri Lanka and also the Consultant to the Space Science Division, Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, Katubedda, Moratuwa. Prof. Jayaratne is also the Immediate Past President, Institute of Physics (IPSL), Sri Lanka; Sri Lankan representative and Board member-International Board on Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad; and a past General Secretary and a current Council member of the Sri Lanka Association (SLAAS)for the Advancement of Science. He is also the Chairman of the All Island School Inventors Competition Committee of the SLAAS and a member of the National Education Committee Board on formulation the General Education Policy of Sri Lanka.

He is a pioneer in Lightning research in this country. In 1986 he started his research on atmospheric physics and lightning jointly with the Institute of High Voltage Research and Department of Meteorology in Uppsala University Sweden. His PhD work has led to the Construction of an Atmospheric Physics and Thunderstorm electricity research laboratory in Sri Lanka and development of PhD and other postgraduate degree awarding facility in this field locally. From 1992-1998 he was the Group Leader of the Atmospheric Physics and Lightning Research Group of Department of Physics, University of Colombo and had supervised several PhD students in this field.

To his credit he received in 1991 the “Third World Academy of Sciences Prizes for Young Scientists - The 1991 Prize for Physics awarded by NSF and in 1992, the GRC (General Research Committee of SLAAS) merit award for his contribution to Sri Lankan Science.

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