Chandima Kumudini Ariyarathna Hanchapola Appuhamilage

As a senior lecturer my main duty is teaching academic and vocational courses to undergraduate and postgraduate studentsrelated to in genetics and plant breeding. I am also responsible for developing and pursuing independent research activities on rlevant subjects, obtaining competitive research grants and publishing the research outcome . I have administrative duties to serve in department and institute committees. The main tasks I perform include delivering lectures, tutorials and practical classes and preparing teaching aids for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, organizing and conducting excursions, field trips and other learning activities, assessing and grading student performance and discussing with students their progress and aspirations , counseling, motivating and supporting students to achieve goals and personal development, research in the field of genetics and molecular plant breeding and supervise research students, developing research proposals, obtaining and managing research grants, publishing research findings in professional and academic journals, books and attending meetings and conferences related to research, general administration and serving in departmental and faculty committees dealing with administrative concerns, providing professional consultative services to government and industry.