Dr. Luminda Gunawardhana is a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Moratuwa since 2021. He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Tohoku University, Japan (2010-2013), and later as an Assistant Professor, then promoted to Associate Professor (2013-2021), in the Civil and Architectural Engineering Department at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. His research interests include surface and subsurface water interactions, climate change, and extreme event analysis.