Shanaka Thisara
Summary
Skills
Science fiction book writing – writer of a science fiction novel(The Serendipity) and a short story(The soul-mates) (still being written) Author and the illustrator for childrens’ two educational illustrated books. (One internationally available on Amazon.com and the other pending to be published) Painting skills. Portrait painting, and sceneries with pencils, color pencils, acrylic painting, digital illustration, digital painting.
Job History
Pharmacovigilance external consultant at IQVIA – IMS Health Lanka PVT. LTD since August 2018. Research officer at Diabetes research unit, Faculty of medicine, University of Colombo on “Sri Lanka Non Communicable Diseases Survey” from May 2018 to August 2018 under Dr. Prasad Katulanda. Quality assurance/ Quality control Executive at Navesta Pharmaceuticals PVT. LTD. Since October 2017 to april 2018.
Education History
University of Colombo, Faculty of Science- BSc - (Molecular Biology and Biochemistry). The undergraduate research project and Thesis ‘Expression of chitinase gene from Trichoderma spp. to develop fungal resistance in rice plants’ A/L passed with a ‘B’ pass for Physics and 3 ‘A’ passes for Biology, Chemistry, and English in 2010, and in 2011 O/L passed with 9 ‘A’ passes, and 1 ‘B’ pass for English literature in 2007.