Biography
Dr. R.M. Chandima Ratnayake is a Professor (in Mechanical Engineering) (100%) in the Department of Mechanical & Structural Engineering and Materials Science (IMBM), University of Stavanger (UiS) – Norway. He has a B.Sc. degree in Production Engineering, M.Sc. degree in Manufacturing Engineering and PhD degree in Offshore Engineering. Professor Ratnayake also worked as a Specialist Engineer – Akersolutions (until September 2020), Norway; ‘Senior Technical Integrity Management Advisor, Wood Group Integrity Management, Wood Group Kenny Norway AS (2014-2019) and a ‘Maintenance Engineering Specialist’ (20%) in ApplySørco, AS (2012.11-2014.02), Norway and as a ‘Senior Engineer’ in AkerSolutions Offshore Partner (2009-2011), Stavanger, Norway. He also served in the capacities of Associate Professor, visiting Associate Professor and Assistant Professor from August 2007 to July 2010 at the University of Stavanger, Norway and as a lecturer at a number of universities & educational institutions in Sri Lanka. Presently he lectures Manufacturing & Production Engineering and Product Development at B.Sc. level, Welding and In-service Inspection Technologies for mechanical and structural engineering M.Sc. level. He also offers two PhD courses (‘Advanced Mechanical Design and Simulation’ and ‘PhD project topic in mechanical engineering and material technology’). He also delivers courses for practicing engineers in Oil & Gas industry and manufacturing sector in national and international level. He has been invited to numerous international level conferences as a speaker within the contexts of Asset integrity assessment and control, Health, Safety & Environmental issues, Sustainability, Maintenance, Criticality Analysis, Risk-based inspection and Reliability centered maintenance, Offshore Data Management, Human factors, etc. Currently, he participates and manages several European commission (EC) [Erasmus, Green Deal] and Norwegian [NORAD, Plogen, VRI] grant projects focusing on implementation on lean concepts and effective implementation of enterprise resource planning systems’ in the Norwegian industry.
Professor Ratnayake supervises B.Sc. & M.Sc. thesis and 11 PhD research projects. He has made more than 200 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He is an associate editor of the ASME Open journal of engineering, Central European Journal of Engineering (Industrial Engineering/Offshore Engineering) & SCIENCEDOMAIN international and a member of editorial board of International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering, Regional Editor Europe: International Journal of Adaptive and Innovative Systems. He has also been served as an ad hoc reviewer and a member of the technical committee for several international conferences and journals.
• Associate Editor - ASME Open Journal of Engineering
• Regional Editor Europe: International Journal of Adaptive and Innovative systems.
• Editor Open Engineering – Sustainable Development, Offshore Engineering:
• Member of Editorial Board - International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering.
• Lead - Lean Learning Academy (European Commission and NORAD projects)
• Member NTVA: Norwegian Academy of Technological Science
• Associate member TWI (AWeldI)