Padukkage Lourdes Lakmini Nadeesha Perera
Bonn - Melbourne joint PhD student
Research Areas
- Hydrology,
- Water quality,
- Water resources,
- Modelling
Regional Focus
- Australia
- Germany
Padukkage Lourdes Lakmini Nadeesha Perera
Melbourne Connect
700 Swanston Street
3053 Carlton, VIC, Australia
Curriculum Vitae
2025 – present: Bonn – Melbourne joint PhD student
Project: Understanding and predicting the combined impacts of land use change and climate variability on catchment water quality
2022 - 2024: MScEng in Environmental and Water Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Thesis: Development of an integrated numerical model set-up for forecasting compound floods in low-lying coastal areas: a case study for Kelani river basin in Sri Lanka
2016 - 2021: BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Doctoral Scholarship for Bonn – Melbourne Joint PhD program
Full scholarship from the Postgraduate Unit of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Peradeniya to pursue the MSc Eng. Degree on a full-time basis
Projects
Bonn-Melbourne Joint PhD Program Hydrology: Understanding and predicting the combined impacts of land use change and climate variability on catchment water quality
Duration:
since 2025
Lead
Prof. Dr. Andrew Western (Melbourne), Prof. Dr. Julian Klaus (Bonn),
Funding:
University of Melbourne, University of Bonn