Dr Kamali Kannangara
Ph.D., University of Hawaii
Associate Head, School of Natural Sciences
College of Health and Science
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797,
Penrith South DC 1797 Australia
E-mail: k.kannangara@uws.edu.au
Ph : +61 2 9685 9952
Fax: +61 2 96859915
Dr Kamali Kannangara is Associate Head of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Her research interests include synthesis of organic and metallorganic compounds and use of spectroscopic techniques for the molecular structure elucidation. Dr. Kannangara has carried out collaborative research projects with industries involving characterisation of complex organic mixtures using LC-MS and NMR spectroscopic techniques, and is an expert in setting up, data collection and interpretation of modern NMR experiments and applying them to various other fields. She has a broad knowledge in laboratory synthesis and has been able to develop novel synthetic procedures that have addressed the ways of achieving regio- and stereo-selectivity in organic molecules. She has co-authored a book on “Nanotechnology”, CRC Press, USA and UNSW Press, Australia that was published 2002. Her current research interests lie in the area of functionalisation of CNTs using microwaves to achieve improved dispersion in polymer-CNT nanocomposites.
