Prof. Don Kulasiri obtained the BSc Eng (honours) at University of Peradeniya (1980) Sri L Lanka and MS and PhD in Engineering at Virginia Tech, USA, in 1988 and 1990, respectively. He joined Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand in 1990 as a lecturer and was appointed to a personal Chair in 1999 by the university. He founded the Centre for Advanced Computational Solutions (C-fACS) at Lincoln University in 1999. He has been: a Visiting Professor, Integrated Systems Biology Cente/Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford, UK (Jan - June, 2008, Nov 2010, June 2013), a Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, New Jersey (Jan-June, 2004; July 2006) , a Visiting Professor to Institute of Scientific Computing, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany (since 2001), a Visiting Scholar, Stanford University (Jan-June, 1998), a visiting member of the Centre for Mathematical Biology, Oxford University, a member of Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and Sigma Xi honour society; and a Panel member of Mathematics, Information Science and Technology (MIST) panel for the PBRF 2012 quality evaluations, Govt of New Zealand.
Computational and Mathematical modelling of biochemical processes/pathways ( inter/intra cellular) based on biophysical considerations; Dynamics of networks far from thermodynamic equilibrium ; stochastic modelling of biological systems; and computational systems biology in general. Prof. Kulasiri maintains a strong interest in bioengineering/biotechnology as well.
