- Faculty of Engineering
- Department of Chemical and Process Engineering
- Senior Lecturer Grade II
Contact information
Univerity of Moratuwa
Katubadda
Moratuwa
Sri Lanka
Teaching and Administrative Activities
Research Activities
Molecular Dynamics, Pharamceutical Engineering, Biomolecules, Process Modeling
Education and Professional Affiliations
PhD, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ,2024 Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Bachelors, University of Moratuwa ,2018 Honours Degree of Bachelor of the Science of Engineering
Associate Memeber of Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL)(2021 To date)
Associate Engineer of Engineering Council Sri Lanka(ECSL)(2021 To date)
Memeber of Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLASS)(2025 To date)
Career
Honours and Awards
Best Graduate Teaching Assistant (Received 2023)
Research Travel Grant for Research Postgraduate Students (Received 2023)
Excellent Research Award for HKPFS awardees (Received 2021)
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (Received 2020)
Publications*
Tashini Inoli, Kalindu S. Fernando ,".Optimizing Wine Production: A Comparative Study of Yeast Fermentation in Seasonal Fruit Juices.",International Research Conference in Chemical and Process Engineering (ChemEICon 2025),Katubedda,Moratuwa,Sri Lanka,2025,
Kalindu S. Fernando, Ying Chau,".A multi-scale model for reversible assembly of FUS and irreversible aggregation of its G156E mutant.",Controlled Release Society Annual meeting & Expo 2023,Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,2023,
Kalindu S. Fernando, Ying Chau,".A multi-scale computational model for liquid-liquid and liquid-solid phase separation of intrinsically disordered protein mimicking polymer peptide hybrids.",American Chemical Society Fall Meeting 2023,San Francisco, California, USA,2023,
Kalindu S. Fernando, Ruilu Feng, Ying Chau,".A molecular dynamics study for salt-mediated size-tunable designer peptide/mRNA co- assembly for efficient cytosol delivery.",Controlled Release Society Annual meeting & Expo 2023,Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,2023,
Kalindu S. Fernando, Ying Chau,".Modeling of Intrinsically Discorded Protein Mimicking Hybrids for Membraneless Organelles Formation.",Material Research Society Fall Meeting 2023,San Francisco, California, USA,2023,
Kalindu S. Fernando, Ghodshiehsadat Jahanmir, Ilona Christy Unarta, Jianhui Liu, Ying Chau,".Associate polymer theory-inspired modelling of intrinsically disordered protein-mimicking polymer-oligopeptide hybrids for the formation of artificial membraneless organelles.",Material Research Society Spring Meeting and Exhibit 2021,Honolulu, Hawaii, USA,2021,
Ruilu Feng, Mehrnoosh Rafiei, Kalindu S. Fernando, Ying Chau,".Direct cytosol delivery of mRNA by micron-sized co-assembly with designer oligopeptides.",Journal of Materials Chemistry B,13(6),2025
Kalindu S. Fernando, Ghodsiehsadat Jahanmir, Ilona C. Unarta, Ying Chau,".Multiscale Computational Framework for the Liquid - Liquid Phase Separation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.",Langmuir,40(14),2024
Kalindu S. Fernando, Ying Chau,".Multi-scale in silico analysis of the phase separation behavior of FUS mutants.",Journal of Materials Chemistry B,12 (48),2024