Dr. Meththika Vithanage

Biography

Meththika Vithanage is a Professor and Adjunct Professor engaged in Natural Resources and is the founding director of the Ecosphere Resilience Research Centre at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, and the University of Petroleum Engineering Studies in India. With a strong academic foundation, his expertise encompasses water chemistry, environmental remediation, toxic metals, antibiotics, agrochemicals, microplastics, and waste biomass conversion. In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences Sri Lanka and has been recognized as a Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2021. He was awarded the prestigious Fayzah M. Al-Kharafi award by the World Academy of Science (TWAS) in 2020 and has served as the Chairperson of the Young Scientists Forum since 2017. His leadership extends to being the Chairperson of the Section Engineering, Architecture and Surveying of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS) in 2018. Over his career, he has received numerous Presidential Awards for Scientific Publications and is recognized as a leading researcher in the field of Biochar, contributing to a significant number of SCI-indexed articles and publications with an h-index of 54 and over 13,000 citations.

Research Interests