
Dr.A.Thevakaran
Senior Lecturer Gr-I
B.Sc. Hons in Physics (Jaffna)
PhD in Atmospheric Physics (Colombo)
thevakaran@univ.jfn.ac.lk
Academic Profile
Awards & Grants
Publications
Teaching
Academic and Research Activities
Admin Roles
Academic Profile
PhD, in Atmospheric Physics, University of Colombo 2015
BSc ,Honors degree in Physics (First class), University of Jaffna, 2005
Awards & Grants
- Sir Arunachalam Mahadeva Memorial Prize in Physics for the best performance in the honors degree examination in science (Physics) 2003.
- University Prize (Thambiah Mudaliyar Chatrum Trust) for the best performance in the honors degree examination in science
- Award of scholarship for the MPhil/PhD Program under the HETC project, 2011.
- Presidential awards for scientific publication (2016)
- South Asia Regional workshop on ‘ Future Earth’ at Divecha Center for Climate Change, IISc, 20-21 July 2017
- International Symposium on Nanomaterials for Clean Energy and Health Application (ISNCHA 2017) Coimbatore Institute of Technology, 6-8 December 2017
Publications
Conference Abstracts
- Gnanapiragasam, A. Thevakaran, S. Sivaraya and P. Ravirajan, 14th Annual Sessions of Jaffna Science Association, Jaffna, 26-28, April 2006 (14) 6. (ISSN 1800-1289)
- Thevakaran and D.U.J. Sonnadara Reconstructing Monthly Temperature Time Series in Jaffna: A Neural Network Approach, University of Jaffna international research conference (2012).
- Thevakaran and D.U.J. Sonnadara. Performance of neural network model in estimating daily maximum and minimum temperature in Jaffna , Annual research symposium 2012, university of Colombo.
- Thevakaran, J.L. McGregor, J. Katzfey, P. Hoffmann, R. Suppiah and D.U.J. Sonnadara: High Resolution Climate Change Projections for Sri Lanka, HETC symposium (2014)
- Thevakaran, J.L. McGregor, J. Katzfey, M.Thatcher, R. Suppiah and D.U.J. Sonnadara Changes in extreme rainfall events: Results from the CCAM simulations over Sri Lanka . Annual research symposium-2014 university of Colombo
- Thevakaran, J.L. McGregor, J. Katzfey, M.Thatcher, R. Suppiah and D.U.J. Sonnadara Evaluation of downscaled climate projection over Sri Lanka. Institute of Physics, Sri Lanka (2015)
- Thevakaran, J.L. McGregor, J. Katzfey, M.Thatcher, R. Suppiah and D.U.J. Sonnadara(2017), Climate Change Projections Over Sri Lanka, International Conference on Computational Modeling and Simulation (ICCMS)At: Sri Lanka
- Subasinghe,P.T.N.S, Pathmatahas,T.,Thevakaran,A and Vimoochan ,K (2018) Investigation of thermal conductivity of waste material for building construction in destination with warm weather, Vinganam International Research Conference (VIRC)
- Tushyanthy and A.Thevakaran (2020), Electricity generation from waste vegetables and fruits by using double chamber microbial fuel cell, 27th Annual Sessions of Jaffna Science Association, Jaffna
- M Rajapaksha, A Thevakaran (2021) Sound level measurement and the setback distance of the wind turbine, URS, Department of physics, University of Jaffna
Teaching
PHY203G2: Optics and special relativity
PHY205G2: Computational Physics
PHY302G3: Modern physics
PHY409M3: Energy Physics
ENS301G2: Environmental Physics
PHY403M3: Advanced solid state Physics
Academic and Research Activities
Journal article
- Thevakaran and D.U.J. Sonnadara (2013) Reconstruction of Missing Monthly Temperature Observations in Jaffna – Sri Lanka, J. National Science Foundation .
- Thevakaran, J.L. McGregor, J. Katzfey, P. Hoffmann, R. Suppiah and D.U.J. Sonnadara (2015) An Assessment of CSIRO Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model simulations over Sri Lanka, J. Climate Dynamics DOI 10.1007/s 00382-015-2680-4.
- A .Thevakaran and D.U.J. Sonnadar (2018) Estimating missing daily temperature extremes in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Theoretical and applied climatology 132, 145-152.
- A .Thevakaran Suppiah and D.U.J Sonnaar(2019), Trends in extreme rainfall events in Sri Lanka, 1961-2010, Journal of National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka
Admin Roles
- Member: Faculty board of Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Academic Counselor, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka -2020
