Academic Building (B3)-Room 199
Department of Biosystems Technology
Faculty of Technology
University of Sri Jayewardenepura
Mahenwatte, Pitipana North
Homagama 10200
Sri Lanka

Email: sandaruwani@sjp.ac.lk

Eng (Mrs). Ayesha Sandaruwani, a researcher, received her Bachelor of Science (B.Sc ) in Engineering (Chemical and Process Engineering – Specialized in Food and Biochemical Engineering-2018) from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and her MPhil in Materials Science and Engineering (2022) at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, under the Supervision of Dr(Mrs). Hansinee Sitinamaluwa (UOM) and Dr. (Ms). G. D. D. Galpaya (QUT, Australia). She Joined the Department of Biosystems Technology in the Faculty of Technology at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura in 2022 as a Lecturer (Probationary)  

RESEARCH KEYWORDS

Dairy waste treatment, Nanomaterials, Graphene Technology, Process plant designing, Food engineering, Kinetics studies

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Volunteering and Wandering

2021-2022

Lecturer/ Coordinator, Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology, Sri Lanka

2019-2021

Research Scholar, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

2019

Lecturer/Coordinator, Study World Lanka Campus, Sri Lanka

2018

Academic Instructor, Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

2016

Industrial Trainee, Fonterra Brands Lanka (PVT) Ltd, Sri Lanka

2023

Best Paper Award

Full paper published on MERCon 2023 conference.

Title: Utilization of Pre-Gelatinized Lesser Yam Flour to Formulate Coconut Milk Yoghurt

 2018

Award for the “Excellence in Research “from the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Moratuwa    

2010

High Distinction at Australian Chemistry Quiz      

Associate Member- IESL                                                          

• D.S. Umayangani, Ayesha Sandaruwani, Mayumi Silva, “Utilization of Pre-Gelatinized Lesser Yam Flour to Formulate Coconut Milk Yoghurt”, 2023 Moratuwa Engineering Conference (MERCon), 2023.
• D.S. Umayangani, Ayesha Sandaruwani, “Investigating the Impact of Pre-Gelatinization Following Steaming on the Physico-Functional Properties of Yam Flour in Sri Lanka”, Institute of Food Science and Technology, 2023.
• A. Sandaruwani and H. Sitinamaluwa, “Preparation of Porous Graphene with Ultra-High Surface Area from Sri-Lankan Graphite,” 2021 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2021, pp. 178-183, doi: 10.1109/MERCon52712.2021.9525768.
• A. Sandaruwani, C. Kumarasinghe, D. Samarakoon, T. U. Ariyadasa, and S. H. P. Gunawardena, “Investigation of the efficiency of dairy wastewater treatment using lipid-degrading bacterial strains,” MERCon 2018 – 4th Int. Multidiscip. Moratuwa Eng. Res. Conf., pp. 362–366, 2018, doi: 10.1109/MERCon.2018.8421973.
• A. Sandaruwani, Hansinee Sitinamaluwa, “Surface area measurement of porous graphene: A kinetics study on methylene blue adsorption method” IESL -2021; Young members’ technical conference (Full paper).

Supervision of various undergraduate projects on food processing technology.