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Academic Staff member

Dr. W. M. K. De Silva

Senior Lecturer (Grade II)

Ph.D. in Physics at University of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. - 2016
M.Sc. in Physics at University of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. - 2011
B.Sc. in Physics at University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. - 2005

Email - desilva@phy.ruh.ac.lk, manjula.desilva@gmail.com
Office - +944122226812/


  • Level I: Senior Lecturer In-charge of level I Physics Practical course unit - PHY1b22
  • Level II: Classical Mechanics (II) - PHY2114
  • Level II: Electricity and Magnetism (II) - PHY2214
  • Level III: Quantum Mechanics - PHY3114
  • Level II (Special Degree): Lecturer In-charge of Special Degree practical classes PHY4071
  • MRI Physics
  • Perfusion Imaging
  • Medical Image Processing
  • Particle Physics
  • High Energy Physics
  • • Masoud Edalati, Weeraddana Manjula De Silva, Xingfu Du, Hui Wang, Yu Li, “Correlation imaging with k-space variant correlation functions” – Under review for publication.
  • • Rolf E. Andreassen, Weeraddana Manjula De Silva, Brian T. Meadows, Michael D. Sokoloff, Karen A. Tomko, “Implementation of a thread-parallel, GPU-friendly function evaluation library”, IEEE Access, February 20, 2014.
  • • V. Andreev et al., “Performance studies of a full-length prototype for the CASTOR forward calorimeter at the CMS experiment”, The European Physical Journal C (2010) 67: 601-615.
  • More publications can be found in Google Scholar and Research Gate in the links provided above.
  • - Student counsellor of the Faculty of Science since 2018 up to date
  • - Mentor in the Faculty of Science since 2017 up to date
  • - Faculty coordinator for Athletics offered by the Physical Education Unit since 2019 up to date
  • - Patron of the Science Faculty Sports Society since 2018 up to date
  • - Chief Examiner of the A/L paper marking panels since 2017 up to date
  • - Member of the organizing committee of the Faculty Day of Science Faculty in 2018 and 2020