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Pavithra Pathirathna

Assistant Professor | College of Engineering and Science: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Contact Information

Expertise

Electrochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Micro/Nano electrodes, Carbon fiber microelectrodes

Personal Overview

Pavithra Pathirathna performed her undergraduate studies at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University, MI, with Dr. Parastoo Hashemi in 2016. She then continued her postdoctoral work with Dr. Shigeru Amemiya in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. Pavithra joined the Chemistry Program at the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences at Florida Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2019.

Grants

Project Title:Ultrafast, Robust, Novel Four‐bore Carbon‐fiber Microelectrodes for Simultaneous Electrochemical Sensing of Multiple Neurotransmitters and Toxic Metals

Agency : National Science Foundation

Award Amount : $200,000

Grant Period : 06-01-2023 to 05-31-2025

 

Project Title : Point-of-care Diagnostic Sensors for Detection of Cadmium in Urine and Blood

Agency : Institutional Research Incentive (IRI) Program, COES, FIT

Award Amount : $11,000

Grant Period : 11-08-2022 to 06-30-2023

 

Project Title : Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Liquid Crystal Thin Films

Agency : Naval Research Laboratory

Award Amount : $10,000

Grant Period : 10-01-2019 to 09-30-2021