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Position : Investigator / Interdisciplinary Researcher
Affiliation: araCreate Group
Based_in : Sri Lanka . Germany . India
Education : BSc (Hons) Biotechnology, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Colombo, Sri Lanka
PGDP Bioinformatics, Genomics & Data Science, Bversity, Chennai, India
Open_to : Research Collaborations · Omics Analysis · Space Biology . Planetary Science
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RNA expression profiling and in-silico study design, looking for molecular signatures that cross disease boundaries — periodontitis and Alzheimer's, oral dysbiosis and cardiovascular risk.
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How microbes, fungi and human physiology behave in space-relevant environments — mutation risk, biosignatures, lunar regolith, and engineered countermeasures.
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Physiology meets hardware: interfacing wearable sensing with real biological signals, selecting the attributes that actually carry information, and validating the science behind the product.
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Time-domain astrophysics, exoplanet observation and life-sciences datasets — contributed to and reviewed in public, with communities rather than behind a paywall.
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| Year | Work | Venue |
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| 2024 | Kilonova Seekers: the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics | MNRAS |
| 2024 | Microarray Data Analysis and Subgroup Identification of Medulloblastoma | Preprint |
| 2022 | The Kepler — poetry, Creative Writing Competition | AbSciCon, NASA ADS |
Manuscripts & work in review — five in flight
- Integrative RNA Expression Profiling to Identify Shared Molecular Signatures between Periodontitis and Alzheimer's Disease — In silico study. Selected, Young Medicine Forum 2026.
- Characterization of Soil- and Rock-Inhabiting Fungi from Three Selected Localities in Sri Lanka with Potential Astrobiological Applications — undergraduate research. Selected, EANA 2026.
- Comparative genomics and synthetic design platform for analyzing space-induced microbial mutations — risk assessment and engineered solutions. Selected, EANA 2026.
- Microgravity-associated oral biofilm dysbiosis and cardiovascular risk — bioinformatic analysis of inflammatory and endothelial pathways. Submitted, ESCI 2026.
- Project SangerScope — internship research, GeneLabs Medical (Pvt) Ltd.
| Space Biology Model Zoo NASA Space Apps Challenge — Global Nominee, 2024. A navigable map of model organisms flown in space. |
Project Astromicrobes Microbial systems in extreme and space-relevant environments, with a synthetic biology layer. |
SPLASH Data analysis and review of ISS bioinstruments. |
| Lunar Regolith Biological and astrobiological use of lunar surface material. |
Biosignature Life-detection concepts and interpretation of astrobiology-relevant markers. |
EXOTIC Citizen-science exoplanet observation and light-curve reduction. |
Differential expression · enrichment and pathway analysis · disease-gene association · sequence analysis (Sanger) · comparative genomics · literature-based signature mining · scientific writing
| Global Nominee | NASA Space Apps Challenge, 2024 |
| Oral presentation | Mycological Society of America, 2025 · EANA 2026 (Space Factor) |
| Competitive review | All-Russian Pitch Session, Young Medicine — V.P. Filatov Foundation, 2026 |
| Abstract Reviewer | American Society for Gravitational and Space Research |
| Ambassador of Asia | Women in Data Science |
| Member | Space Generation Advisory Council · NASA Open Science (AWG) · CitSci Foundation |
