Senior Deputy Director
Industrial Technology Institute
Sriparakum Mawatha
Sri Lanka
Rathnayake Mudiyanselage is currently working as Senior Deputy Director of Industrial Technology Institute (Successor to Ceylon Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research in Sri Lanka),conducted various trainings programs on plant tissue culture, identification and agronomic practices of medicinal plants for prospective stake holders of medicinal plant industry. He did his BSc (Sp.) Hons in Agriculture from University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka in 1995, Specialized in Horticultural Crop Production and Diploma in English from Aquinas College, Sri Lanka in 1998. He also did his Master of Philosophy in Botany from University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka in 2002 and PhD in Botany from University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka in 2011, now working as a Secretary of Science and Technology Advisory Committee (SLAAS) and as an Editorial Board member of Pharmacognosy research, Chair Person of Sri Lanka Association of Advancement of Science award committee. He is the author of many relevant publications in the World Journal of Agricultural Research and Journal of Ethno pharmacology, and also has many Research Communications in Sri Lanka and Proc. international Conference on Restorative & Alternative Medicine, USA, and Proc.73rd annual sessions of Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science.
Plant systematic/Taxonomy of medicinal plants,Bioactivity of medicinal plant,Development of tissue culture