Jagath Gunasekera, Ph.D.
IE Lab Instructor/Manager
EB 2048, Box 1805
Phone: 618-650-2818
E-mail: jgunase@siue.edu
Dr. Jagath Gunasekera is the lab manager and an Instructor in the Mechanical and Industrial engineering department at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He received his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Missouri – Columbia. Dr. Gunasekera worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri- Columbia from 2013-2017. In 2019, Dr. Gunasekera joined Southern Illinois University Edwardsville to pursue his MS in Industrial Engineering. He has experience performing neutron scattering at national nuclear reactors. Furthermore, Dr. Gunasekera has performed high precision electronic, magnetic and cryogenic (50mK) non-destructive measurements during his postdoctoral tenure. He has given 6 international conference talks and published 11 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals including Nature and Advanced Science. He has won multiple research and teaching excellence awards. In addition, he represented team USA at the world powerlifting championships in 2010 and won 2nd place.
