Department of Zoology and Environmental Management

Mr. K. M Sudesh RuvindaSenior Lecturer (Gr II)

Faculty of Science

University of Kelaniya

Kelaniya 11600, Sri Lanka

Telephone: Office: +94 11 2914479, Mobile: +94 77 6 444 161

Qualifications

• M. Phil Degree in Zoology - University of Kelaniya, 2017 June

• Graduate of B.Sc. (Honours) in Zoology - University of Kelaniya, 2013 March

Research Interests

Selected Recent Research Publications

Publications - Conference Papers and abstracts

Professional Experience

Academic Contributions

Resources person (add these new events)

A voluntary advisor and participant for the events organized by Zero Plastic, University of Kelaniya.
Reviewer for 41st Annual session, Institute of Biology, Sri Lanka; ICMAS 2021 organized by the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, and ICAPS 2021 organized by the Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya.
Department representative of preparation of Self Evaluation Report (SER) for Institutional review 2020.
Group member in the preparation of Self Evaluation Report (SER) for the BSc Degree and BSc Honours degree programme review 2020 (Criterion 8- Section 3).
Senior treasurer of the Zoological Society, University of Kelaniya, academic year 2017/2018.
Organizer for the awareness program to prevent dengue outbreak in university community 2019.
Organizer of the outbound training program at CHE Adventure Park for BSc Undergraduates, January 2020.

Participant (add these new events)

‘Empowering Educators using MOODLE,’ conducted by Dr. Martin Dougiamas at International Conference on Advances in Computing and Technology, July 2019.
Training on ‘Ecosystem Resilience in a Changing Climate’ May 2019, organized by Asian Disaster Preparedness Center and Disaster Management section of Ministry of Public administration and disaster Management Sri Lanka.
Continuing Professional Development MOOCs on Adoption of Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practice implemented by the Open University of Sri Lanka with the support of Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia from September 2018 to February 2019.

Invited Guest Speeches (insert this section)

An online seminar titled "Why We Should Conserve Biodiversity" organized by the Association of Geography of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Languages, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 25th of May 2022.
An online seminar titled ‘Histological Applications in Biological Research’ to BSc Students of Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 21st March 2022.
A keynote speaker of the session ‘Wildlife Photography’ organized by Leo Club of University of Kelaniya under the ‘Naturapeeps’ project, on 27th October 2021.
An online seminar titled ‘Conservation on Freshwater Biodiversity’ to FAPM nature club of Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, 06th June2021.
Online discussion under the theme of ‘Boost Your Career: Environmental Science’ for LED KLN Business School 18th March 2021.
An online seminar titled ‘Marine biodiversity conservation’ to Rotaract Club of University of Kelaniya 06th March 2020.
‘Introduction to Biodiversity’ school children awareness programme organized by St/Andrew’s Girls’ Collage, Science section, held on 25thof February 2020.
‘Introduction to Regional Biodiversity Resources’ school children awareness programme organized by Waharaka Maha Vidyalaya, Gonagaldeniya, Sri Lanka held on 18th of June 2019.

Membership in Professional Societies