{"id":1810,"date":"2021-04-07T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T10:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phy.jfn.ac.lk\/?page_id=1810"},"modified":"2026-09-21T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:00:17","slug":"profile-dr-a-thevakaran","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/phy.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php\/profile-dr-a-thevakaran\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile-Dr.A.Thevakaran"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1810\" class=\"elementor elementor-1810\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6d5e835 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6d5e835\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-582ecfd\" data-id=\"582ecfd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b04f4ec elementor-position-top elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"b04f4ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;zoomIn&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/phy.jfn.ac.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Thevakaran-PF-copy.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-3756\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">Dr.A.Thevakaran<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\"><b>Senior Lecturer Gr-I<\/b><br>\nB.Sc. Hons in Physics (Jaffna)<br>\nPhD in Atmospheric Physics (Colombo)<br>\n<span style=\"font-size:11.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\"><a href=\"mailto:thevakaran@univ.jfn.ac.lk\"><span style=\"font-size:9.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">thevakaran@univ.jfn.ac.lk<\/span><\/a><\/span><br>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c0584c elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"2c0584c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-xs\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&#038;user=7REZNS8AAAAJ\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Google Scholar<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-469710a elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"469710a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-xs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Arunasalam-Thevakaran\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">ResearchGate<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-88fa477\" data-id=\"88fa477\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d1dbd7b elementor-tabs-view-horizontal elementor-widget elementor-widget-tabs\" data-id=\"d1dbd7b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2201\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2201\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Academic Profile<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2202\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2202\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Awards & Grants<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2203\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2203\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2204\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2204\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Teaching<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2205\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2205\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Academic and Research Activities<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2206\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"6\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2206\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Admin Roles<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2201\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Academic Profile<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2201\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2201\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p><strong>PhD, <\/strong>in Atmospheric Physics, University of Colombo 2015<\/p><p><strong>BSc ,<\/strong>Honors degree in Physics (First class), University of Jaffna, 2005 \u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2202\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Awards & Grants<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2202\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2202\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><ul><li>Sir Arunachalam Mahadeva Memorial Prize in Physics for the best performance in the honors degree examination in science (Physics) 2003.<\/li><li>University Prize (Thambiah Mudaliyar Chatrum Trust) for the best performance in the honors degree examination in science<\/li><li>Award of scholarship for the MPhil\/PhD Program under the HETC project, 2011.<\/li><li>Presidential awards for scientific publication (2016)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>South Asia Regional workshop on \u2018 Future Earth\u2019 at Divecha Center for Climate Change, IISc, 20-21 July 2017<\/li><li>International Symposium on Nanomaterials for Clean Energy and Health Application (ISNCHA 2017) Coimbatore Institute of Technology, 6-8 December 2017\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2203\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Publications<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2203\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2203\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><strong>Conference Abstracts\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p><ul><li>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)<\/li><li>Thevakaran and D.U.J. Sonnadara Reconstructing Monthly Temperature Time Series in Jaffna: A Neural Network Approach, University of Jaffna international research conference (2012).<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>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)<\/li><li>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 .<em> Annual research symposium-2014 university of Colombo<\/em><\/li><li>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)<\/li><li>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<\/li><li>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)<\/li><li>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<\/li><li>M Rajapaksha, A Thevakaran (2021) <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?oi=bibs&amp;cluster=117337987915465882&amp;btnI=1&amp;hl=en\">Sound level measurement and the setback distance of the wind turbine<\/a>, URS, Department of physics, University of Jaffna<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2204\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Teaching<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2204\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"4\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2204\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p>PHY203G2: Optics and special relativity <br \/>PHY205G2: Computational Physics<br \/>PHY302G3: Modern physics<br \/>PHY409M3: Energy Physics<br \/>ENS301G2: Environmental Physics<br \/>PHY403M3: Advanced solid state Physics<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2205\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Academic and Research Activities<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2205\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"5\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2205\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><strong>Journal article\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p><ul><li>Thevakaran and D.U.J. Sonnadara (2013) Reconstruction of Missing Monthly Temperature Observations in\u00a0 Jaffna \u2013 Sri Lanka, J. National Science Foundation .<\/li><li>Thevakaran, J.L. McGregor, J. Katzfey, P. Hoffmann, R. Suppiah and D.U.J. Sonnadara (2015) An Assessment of CSIRO\u00a0 Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model simulations\u00a0 over Sri Lanka, J. Climate Dynamics DOI 10.1007\/s 00382-015-2680-4.<\/li><li>A .Thevakaran and D.U.J. Sonnadar (2018) Estimating missing daily temperature extremes in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Theoretical and applied climatology 132, 145-152.<\/li><li>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<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"6\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2206\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Admin Roles<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2206\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"6\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2206\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><ul><li><b>Member<\/b>:\u00a0Faculty board of Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka<\/li><li><p>Academic Counselor<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">-2020<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.A.Thevakaran Senior Lecturer Gr-I B.Sc. Hons in Physics (Jaffna) PhD in Atmospheric Physics (Colombo) thevakaran@univ.jfn.ac.lk Google Scholar ResearchGate Academic Profile Awards &#038; 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 \u00a0 Awards &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ocean_front_end_style_editor":"no","ocean_post_layout":"full-width","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"on","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1810","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phy.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phy.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/phy.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6507,"href":"https:\/\/phy.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1810\/revisions\/6507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phy.jfn.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}