Professor Sudheera Ranwala has pioneered in academic achievements, research, publications and contribution to the national development. She is a recipient of research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, National Research Council, Ministry of Environment and University of Colombo, and an author of peer reviewed and indexed international and national journal articles, conference proceedings, technical papers, book chapters, books and magazine articles. Sudheera has  also organized seminars, conferences, and workshops. She has served as a member of the National Environment Council of Sri Lanka,  National Working Committee on Biodiversity and Environment of the National Science Foundation and currently a member of the National Invasive Species Specialist Group (NISSG- Sri Lanka) and  National  Forestry Research  Committee. Sudheera is an aluminus (scholar and fellow) of Commonwealth  Commission of the United Kingdom,  a  Chartered and Fellow member of  the Institute of Biology Sri Lanka, and also a consultant Plant ecologist at national level.                

Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Science

Teaching, research,  administration, dissemination of knowledge and contribution to national development

Teaching, research,  administration, dissemination of knowledge and contribution to  national development

B.Sc.  special degree in Botany

University of Colombo

Ph.D. in Plant Ecology

University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

Training in Science Journalism

Environmental Impact Assessment Methodology

Geographic Information Systems

Ranwala S., Marambe B., Wijesundara S., Silva P., Weerakoon D., Atapattu N., Gunawardena J., Manawadu L. and Gamage G. (2012): Post-entry risk assessment of invasive alien flora in Sri Lanka - Present status, gap analysis and the most troublesome alien invaders. Pakistan Journal of Weed  Science Research 18: 863- 871

HOW Peiris, SSN Perera, S. Chakraverty and SMW Ranwala (2018).  Development of a mathematical model to evaluate the rate of aggregate risk of invasive alien plant species: Fuzzy risk assessment approach. International Journal  of Biomathematics, 11 (4),1850049 1-18

Sudheera Wadisinha Ranwala (2011). Invasive Alien Plants of Sri  Lanka- (in Sinhala ) published by the National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka ISBN: 978-955-590-090-4  

President's  Award for  Scientific Research Publications (2010)

University of Colombo Senate Award for Scientific Research Publications (2016)

Commonwealth Fellowship - Competitive Academic Award  tenable in UK, Commonwealth Commission, UK (2009)

SRI LANKA ASSOCIATION OF ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE  membership since 1994:
     i) COUNCIL MEMBER (2014)
    ii) SECTION  D (Life Sciences):   President 2014,  Vice President 2013,  Secretary 2008  
        Committee member-  2007, 2009, 2011, 2012                   
   iii) COMMITTEE FOR POPULARIZATION OF SCIENCE- Member-  2012
   iv) COMMITTEE FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION Member- 2010

INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY (SRI LANKA)
    i) President - 2008/09 , Vice President - 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08 
   ii) Joint  Secretary- 2003/04 and 2004/05

Fellow member of  Institute of Biology, Sri Lanka  from 2013

Member of the Editorial Board of Taprobanica, the Journal of South Asian Biodiversity published by the Nature Conservation Society of Sri  Lanka  (2009-2014)

Member of the Editorial Board of  Journal of Tropical Forestry &   Environment Published by University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka (from 2012)

Member of the Editorial Board of  Journal of Sustainable Forestry published by  Taylor & Francis online (from 2015)