| Name: | Ayomi Jayarathne |
| Highest qualification and awarding university | PhD, Queensland University of Technology |
| Designation | Dr |
| Employer | Queensland University of Technology |
| Contact details:Email:WhatsApp number/Mobile number | |
| ayomi.jayarathne@qut.edu.au | |
+61 404 148 761 | |
| Home page link on your employer web site if available | https://research.qut.edu.au/waeeg/people/ayomi-jayarathne/ |
| Key areas of interest | Stormwater pollution and modelling, Adsorption behaviour of organic and inorganic contaminants, Risk assessment in relation to ecological and human health, Multivariate analysis |
| Web links for your research profile on Google scholar; ORCID or ResearchGate (if available); only one of them please. | Google Scholar |
Ayomi Jayarathne is a research associate at School of Civil and Environmental Engineering – Queensland University of Technology (QUT) since 2018. She has been actively working with academics and researchers in Water and Environmental Engineering group at QUT, and engaged with several international and industrial collaborations including Shenzhen University – China, São Paulo State University – Brazil, the Desert Research Institute – USA, and Verterra Ecological Engineering – Australia. Her current research has a focus on: stormwater pollution; river health; and pollutant transformation. In view of her outstanding research performance, she has been awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award, QUT in 2018.
Research Project
- Transformation of metals built-up on urban roads
- Removal of emerging contaminants using biochar
- Transformation and degradation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in urban road surfaces
Key Publications/Reports
- Jayarathne, A., Wijesiri, B., Egodawatta, P., Ayoko, G. A., and Goonetilleke, A. (2020). Metals in the Urban Stormwater Environment. “Transformation Processes of Metals in Urban Road Dust” (pp. 1-10): Springer, Singapore.
- Gbeddy, G., Egodawatta, P., Goonetilleke, A., Ayoko, G., Jayarathne, A., Chen, L., and Russell, S. (2020). Optimized simultaneous pressurized fluid extraction and in-cell clean-up, and analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and nitro-, carbonyl-, hydroxy -PAHs in solid particles. Analytica Chimica Acta, 1125, 19-28.
- Jayarathne, A., Wijesiri, B., Egodawatta, P., Ayoko, G. A., and Goonetilleke, A. (2019). Role of adsorption behavior on metal build-up in urban road dust. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 83, 85-95.
- Jayarathne, A., Egodawatta, P., Ayoko, G. A., and Goonetilleke, A. (2018). Assessment of ecological and human health risks of metals in urban road dust based on geochemical fractionation and potential bioavailability. Science of The Total Environment, 635, 1609-1619.
- Jayarathne, A., Egodawatta, P., Ayoko, G. A., and Goonetilleke, A. (2017). Geochemical phase and particle size relationships of metals in urban road dust. Environmental Pollution, 230, 218-226.