DrLashi Bandara

Senior Lecturer, Mathematics

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology

BIO

Research:

I am a global analyst. I use operator methods in geometry, particular when they encode geometric/topological information. I typically work with differential operators on vector bundles and analyse them through functional calculus and real-variable harmonic analysis.


My current focus is on index theory in settings with boundary. I have contributed extensively to the topic over the past 5 years, in particular upgrading Fourier circle methods with the holomorphic functional calculus. This has allowed for analysis of non-Dirac-type operators and also non-compact boundary. 

 

See my research tab for more details! 

 

Position:

I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the Deakin Mathematics Group at Deakin University, Burwood Campus. 

Priot to that, I was a Lecturer in Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics at Brunel University of London. 

Before that, I was a postdoc in the Geometry group at the University of Potsdam lead by Christian Bär funded via the SPP2026 - Geometry at Infinity which is a Special Priority Program of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft/German Reserach Foundation).


Previously, I did a postdoc with Andreas Rosén at Mathematical Sciences at University of Gothenburg in Sweden funded via a Knut and Alice Wallenberg Fellowship.


My PhD supervisor was the late Alan McIntosh.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Senior Lecturer, Mathematics
    Deakin University, School of Information Technology

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Lecturer in Mathematics
    Brunel University of London, Department of Mathematics, London, United Kingdom1 Aug 2021 - 31 Jul 2023
  • Postdoc
    University of Potsdam, Mathematics, Potsdam, Germany1 Sep 2017 - 31 Jul 2021
  • Postdoc
    University of Gothenburg, Mathematical Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden1 Sep 2014 - 31 Aug 2017
  • Research Visitor
    Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany1 Jan 2015 - 1 May 2015
  • Postdoc
    Australian National University, Canberra, Australia1 Oct 2013 - 31 Aug 2014

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Australian National University
  • Bachelor of Computer Science
    Monash University
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours)
    Monash University
  • Fellow (FHEA) of AdvanceHE
    Advance HE

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
    Advance HE, York, United Kingdom

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoc
    University of Potsdam, Mathematics, Potsdam, Germany1 Sep 2017 - 31 Aug 2021
    Geometry and AnalysisPostdoctoral FellowshipSupervised by Bär C
  • Postdoc
    University of Gothenburg, Mathematical Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden1 Sep 2014 - 31 Aug 2017
    Geometry and AnalysisPostdoctoral FellowshipSupervised by Rosén A

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Sinhala; Sinhalese
    Can speak and understand
  • German
    Can speak and understand
  • Swedish
    Can speak and understand

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Algebraic and differential geometry
  • Operator algebras and functional analysis
  • Partial differential equations

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Information Technology