Tissa Illangasekare#
Membership Number: | 6344 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2022 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Homepage(s): | https://cee.mines.edu/project/illangasekare-tissa/ |
ORCID: | 0000-0003-4975-560X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1998 - date, AMAX Endowed Distinguished Chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Colorado School of Mines and Director, Center for Experimental Study of Subsurface Environmental Processes (CESEP), Golden, Colorado, USA
- 1919 - date, Affiliate, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
- 1919, 01- 05, Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Univ. of California, Berkeley
- 1918 - date; Visiting Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder
- 2012, 01 - 08; Shimuzu Visiting Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Visiting Professor, Global Climate Energy Program (GCEP) and Dept. of Earth Resources Engineering at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
- 2011 - 2015; Visiting Chair Professor, College of Engineering, Peiking University, Beijing, China
- 2007, 01 - 12; Program Director (rotation) – Hydrological Sciences, National Science Foundation, Washington DC., USA
- 1986 - 1998; Associate Professor and Professor, Department of Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- 1983 - 1986; Assistant Professor – Department of Civil Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
- 1978 - 1983; Assistant Professor (Research) - Civil Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Multiphase flow as applied to subsurface contamination and geologic storage of carbon
- Intermediated scale testing of subsurface flow and transport
- Physics of flow and transport in porous media
- Soil and groundwater pollution and remediation
- Glacial melting as applied to sea level rise
- Water and human health
- Land-atmospheric interaction experimentation and modeling
- Monitoring Leakage of carbon dioxide and brine from deep geologic storage formations
- Numerical modeling and computational methods as applied to subsurface flow and transport
- Sensor technologies for subsurface and environmental monitoring
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Fellow of National Academy of Science of Sri Lanka
- 2017 Asian Institute of Technology Alumni Association, Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic and Research Excellence
- 2016 Appointed to the Nuclear Waste Technology Review Board (NWTRB) by President Obama
- 2016 7th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Groundwater Prize
- 2015 Fellow, Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)
- 2015 American Geophysical Union’s Langbein Lecture Award for life time contribution to hydrological sciences
- 2012 Henry Darcy Medal from the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
- 2012 Elected the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Flow in Permeable Media, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
- 2012 Shimuzu Visiting Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
- 2011 Boland Hydrology Award, American Geophysical Union (AGU), Hydrology Days
- 2010 Honorary Doctorate in Natural Science and Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden