.CHANDIMA’S BIO
Chandima Gomes is a professor of electrical engineering and researcher in electromagnetics and lightning protection at Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is also an expert in power and energy, electromagnetic interference and compatibility, occupational safety management, disaster mitigation and proposal writing.
Chandima was the founder of the Centre for Electromagnetics and Lightning Protection Research (CELP), Malaysia and the Head of the Institute from 2012 to 2015. He has held full-time/adjunct/visiting professorship and lectureship in physics, engineering and meteorology at universities based in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, USA, Australia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Zambia and Japan. He is a senior advisor to the National Lightning Safety Institution (NLSI), USA and was the Chief Advisor to African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics (ACLENet) based in Uganda.
Being an engineering consultant for several companies in Asia and Africa, Chandima has 20+ years of international experience in designing lightning protection systems, providing solutions for electromagnetic pollution, advising on electrical safety under both regular operational and disaster conditions, developing research teams on disaster management and education. He is well known at international frontiers as a trainer of trainer in several engineering subjects including, lightning, electrical safety and electromagnetism. Chandima has conducted over 120 programs in 12 countries so far. He has published over 250 research papers and several books on his expertise.
Chandima obtained a First Class Degree in Physics from the University of Colombo in 1993. He has done his PhD (1999) and postdoctoral research on lightning protection and high voltage engineering at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Chandima Gomes is a professor of electrical engineering and researcher in electromagnetics and lightning protection at Universiti Putra Malaysia. He is also an expert in power and energy, electromagnetic interference and compatibility, occupational safety management, disaster mitigation and proposal writing.
Chandima was the founder of the Centre for Electromagnetics and Lightning Protection Research (CELP), Malaysia and the Head of the Institute from 2012 to 2015. He has held full-time/adjunct/visiting professorship and lectureship in physics, engineering and meteorology at universities based in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, USA, Australia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Zambia and Japan. He is a senior advisor to the National Lightning Safety Institution (NLSI), USA and was the Chief Advisor to African Centres for Lightning and Electromagnetics (ACLENet) based in Uganda.
Being an engineering consultant for several companies in Asia and Africa, Chandima has 20+ years of international experience in designing lightning protection systems, providing solutions for electromagnetic pollution, advising on electrical safety under both regular operational and disaster conditions, developing research teams on disaster management and education. He is well known at international frontiers as a trainer of trainer in several engineering subjects including, lightning, electrical safety and electromagnetism. Chandima has conducted over 120 programs in 12 countries so far. He has published over 250 research papers and several books on his expertise.
Chandima obtained a First Class Degree in Physics from the University of Colombo in 1993. He has done his PhD (1999) and postdoctoral research on lightning protection and high voltage engineering at Uppsala University, Sweden.