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Chandani N. Nandadasa, Ph.D.

Starkville, MS Lawful permanent resident

***********@*****.*** 662-***-**** linkedin.com/in/chandani-nandadasa/ Professional Summary

• Detailed oriented and trained computational material scientist with 9+ years of expertise in multi-scale modeling and simulation methods

• Self-driven researcher with excellent time and project management skills, through designing and performing research objectively, that awarded two prestigious grants as a graduate student

• Committed team worker to work effectively with colleagues and with coworkers as evidenced by collaborations with Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

• Effective communicator with excellent planning and organizational strengths, keen to develop new methods and techniques that resulted in 6+ peer-reviewed scientific publications and 10+ conference presentations Work Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor 01/2020 – present, 01/2019 – 05/2019 Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

• Plan, develop, and implement in-person and online course curriculums for 300+ students/ year, with varying levels of understanding

• Maintain records of student’s progress and mentor 300+ students/ year students to accomplish their aca- demic goals

• Collaborate and assist with academic and administration staff with 40+ people for reaching departmental goals

Postdoctoral Research Associate 01/2018 – 12/ 2018 Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

• Discovered 2+ dynamically stable structures of selected electrides and structural phase transitions, and their thermodynamic properties

• Designed and executed methods for screening room-temperature stable electrides as well as for enhancing the magnetic moment of Y2C by 4% by changing the structural parameters

• Mentored and trained 3 graduate students, assisted to prepare journal articles and presentations Graduate Research/ Teaching Scholar 01/2011 – 12/2017 Mississippi State University Starkville, MS

• Explored 5+ thermodynamically stable two-dimensional inorganic electrides and investigated their struc- tural, electronic, and magnetic properties

• Invented 2+ Modified Embedded Atomic Method (MEAM) interatomic potentials for Fe alloys using a first- principles method based on density functional theory

• Improved magnetic and electronic properties of MnBi by doping Fe, Ni, and Co into interstitial sites

• Designed and taught lectures and labs for undergraduates, graded test papers and lab reports for 5+ semes- ters with 75+ students/semester

Education

Ph.D., Engineering (Applied Physics) 12/2017

Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

M.Sc., Physics 12/2013

Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

B.Sc., major in Physics and minor in Mathematics 04/2004 University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Technical and Software Skills

• Materials modeling and

simulations

• VASP • MATLAB, C++, FORTRAN,

Python, Mathematica, LAT

EX

• Two-dimensional materials • LAMMPS • Project management

• Magnetic materials • Bader, LOBSTER, VASPKIT, • Public speaking

• Electronic structure wxDragon, p4vasp • UNIX, Ubuntu Linux,

• Surface and interface analysis • VESTA, JMOL, OVITO, XCryDen Windows, Mac OS

• Phonon analysis • Mathematical optimization • MS Word, Excel, Power Point Grants and Awards

• The Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program award, Department of Energy 2016

• Travel Assistance Grant for Graduate Students, Mississippi State University 2014, 2015, 2016

• Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant, Mississippi State University 2016

• East Asia Pacific Summer Institute Fellowship, National Science Foundation 2015 Selected Publications

• Seung Yong Lee, Jae-Yeol Hwang, Jongho Park, Chandani N. Nandadasa, Yonghak Kim, Kimoon Lee, Kyu Hy- oung Lee, Yunwei Zhang, Yanming Ma, Hideo Hosono, Young Hee Lee, Seong-Gon Kim, Sung Wng Kim. (2020) Ferromagnetic quasi-atomic electrons in two-dimensional electride, Nat. Comm., 11(1), 2514.

• Se Hwang Kang, Kyungwha Chung, Chandani N. Nandadasa, Gyeongtak Han, Subin Lee, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Yanming Ma, Sang Ho Oh, Seong-Gon Kim, Young-Min Kim, Sung Wng Kim. (2019) Self-passivated dihafnium sulfide electride and its persistent electrocatalytic reaction in water and acid, Science Advances, 6(23), eaba7416.

• Jongho Park, Kimoon Lee, Seung Yong Lee, Chandani Nandadasa, Sungho Kim, Kyu Hyoung Lee, Young Hee Lee, Hideo Hosono, Seong-Gon Kim, Sung Wng Kim. (2017) Strong localization of anionic electrons at inter- layer for electrical and magnetic anisotropy in two-dimensional 2 electride, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139(2), 615-618.

Community Services

• Vice president of Starkville Multi Culture Lions Club 2016

• Secretary of Physics Graduate Student Association, Mississippi State University 2015

• Outreach Program coordination and representation 2013 – 2017

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