R.M. Chandima Ratnayake

Dr. R.M. Chandima Ratnayake is a Professor (100%) in the Department of Mechanical & Structural Engineering and Materials Science (IKM), University of Stavanger (UiS) – Norway, where he has been since 2006. He has a B.Sc. in Production Engineering, M.Sc. in Manufacturing Engineering and PhD in Offshore Engineering (Asset Integrity Management). Professor Ratnayake is also a ‘Senior Integrity Management - Technical Advisor, Wood Group Integrity Management, Wood Group Kenny Norway AS. He has also served as a ‘Maintenance Engineering Specialist’ (20%) in ApplySørco, AS (2012.11-2014.02), Norway and as a ‘Senior Engineer’ in AkerSolutions Offshore Partner (2009-2011), Stavanger, Norway. He also served in the capacities of Associate Professor, visiting Associate Professor and Assistant Professor from August 2007 to July 2010 in the University of Stavanger, Norway and as a lecturer to a number of universities & educational institutions in Sri Lanka. Presently he lectures: Manufacturing & Production Engineering and Product Development for B.Sc. students, Computer Aided Engineering for M.Sc. students. He also offers two PhD courses (Industrial asset integrity assessment & control and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis). Moreover, he conducts courses for practicing engineers in Oil & Gas industry and manufacturing sector in national and international level. He has been invited for numerous international level conferences as a speaker within the contexts of Asset integrity control and management, Health, Safety & Environmental issues, Sustainability, Maintenance, Criticality Analysis, Risk based inspection and Reliability centered maintenance, Offshore Data Management, Human factors, etc. Professor Ratnayake supervises B.Sc., M.Sc., and PhD projects. He has published number of articles in peer reviewed journals & conference proceedings and book chapters. He is an Editor of the Central European Journal of Engineering (Industrial Engineering/Offshore Engineering) and a member of editorial board of International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering. He has also been served as an ad hoc reviewer and member of technical committee for several international conferences and journals.