Dr. K. R. Jaliya Manuda obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Colombo. He received his education from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, Nalanda College - Colombo 10, and Ananda Central College - Elpitiya.  He is an experimental physical chemist and a materials scientist who has published multiple international publications based on his doctoral research. Currently, he is looking forward to opportunities to further explore his research interests to make the world a better place.

PhD Thesis title: Direct monitoring of photoinduced degradation of organic molecules at TiO2 and TiO2-rGO nanocomposite interfaces

PhD Supervisor: Professor Dilushan Jayasundara

Email - krjaliyamanuda@gmail.com

Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XNFobv8AAAAJ&hl=en

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-r-jaliya-manuda-72b41a174/

ResearchGate - https://www.researchgate.net/profile/K-R-Jaliya-Manuda?ev=hdr_xprf

ORCID - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3333-6649

Jaliya also has a YouTube channel where he talks about Chemistry: https://youtube.com/@thechemslayer?si=wIGX8bhpTiFQAhm3

00:00 About Jaliya

01:39 Chemistry is the central science

04:58 Educational journey 

09:21 Deciding on research area

10:18 What is Physical chemistry?

14:20 Searching for PhDs in Sri Lanka

17:34 Picking a good supervisor

20:07 What qualifications did they look?

22:19 Research intro – Photocatalytic degradation 

33:27 Quartz Chrystal Microbalance

45:23 Research question

56:17 Interesting side project

59:27 Accidental discovery

1:03:18 Conclusion

1:08:19 Discovery #2

1:14:49 Discovery #3

1:19:21 Collaborative study #1

1:22:16 Collaborative study #2

1:23:50 Collaborative study #3

1:25:54 Milestones

1:28:28 Royal Society of Chemistry backcover image

1:29:08 Outside lab experience