Congratulations Prof. Nimal Rajapakse, for being named as a Lifetime Achievement Award Winner at the Sri Lanka Foundation Awards Ceremony held in Los Angeles, California, for his excellence as a renowned international Researcher and an accomplished Academic Administrator. The “Sri Lanka Foundation Awards” is an event to render due recognition to deserving individuals of the Sri Lankan expatriate community in all fields of human discipline.
• Awarded in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Applied Mechanics research and teaching.
• Ranked among the top 100,000 and top 1% of worldwide researchers based on the Scopus database.
• Primary and secondary education from Ananda College.
• Graduate of the University of Moratuwa and Asian Institute of Technology.
• Co-authored a textbook published by Springer, which has been accessed 1.5 million times.
• An accomplished academic leader with over twenty years of university leadership experience in Canada and Sri Lanka
Awards
• Horst Leipholz Medal of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
• Rh Award in Applied Sciences
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany
• Visiting Professor, Science Without Borders Program, Brazil
• Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering and The Engineering Institute of Canada
• Col. Henry Steele Olcott Memorial Oration
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