Professor Harshinie Karunarathna

Professor, Civil Engineering

Telephone number

+44 (0) 1792 606549
Office - 112
First Floor
Energy Safety Research Institute
Bay Campus
Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

Prof. Harshinie Karunarathna is a personal chair in the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering at the Department of Engineering of Swansea University, UK. She completed an BSc (Eng) in Civil Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, an MSc in River Estuarine and Coastal Engineering at Imperial College, London and a PhD in Coastal Engineering at Saitama University, Japan. Her primary discipline of research and teaching is coastal and estuarine engineering. Her main research focus is coastal hydro-morphodynamics and climate change impacts on the coastal zone. Her research has been supported by Research Councils UK and numerous other funding sources. She has published over 170 research articles in high impact international journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings and supervised 14 PhD students to successful completion. Harshinie currently leads the Energy and Environment Research group of the College of Engineering.

Areas Of Expertise

  • Computational modelling
  • Laboratory experimentation
  • Coastal and estuarine hydrodynamics and morphodynamics
  • Coastal flood risk
  • Environmental impacts of marine renewables
  • Nature-based coastal engineering
  • Climate change impacts on the coastal environment

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

EGA117/EGM107 – Coastal Processes and Engineering
EGM35 – Flood Risk Management
EGA117 – Fluid Mechanics 1

Research Award Highlights