Rate My Professor Sampath Hewage Kadinappuli Hewage

Sampath Hewage Kadinappuli Hewage, fully named Suresh Madushan Sampath Kadinappuli Hewage, is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, a position he has held since August 2021. He obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia, between 2017 and 2020, with specialist areas including CO₂ storage, hydrocarbon (CH₄) extraction, CO₂ flow and adsorption in geological reservoirs, geo-reservoir engineering, rock-mechanics, geo-mechanics, hydro-mechanical coupling, static and dynamic experimental analysis, numerical and statistical modelling. Prior to this, he completed a B.Sc. in Civil Engineering with First Class Honours from the University of Moratuwa in 2016, ranking second in the department with an overall GPA of 4.02/4.20. His career trajectory includes serving as Visiting Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade) in the Curtin University B.Sc. Engineering Program at SLIIT International since September 2022, Visiting Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Rangsit Campus, Thailand from September to October 2023, Visiting Lecturer at ESOFT College of Engineering & Technology and Sri Lanka Technological Campus since 2022, Senior Tutor for Earth Processes for Engineering and Geotechnical Applications at the University of Melbourne from 2018 to 2020, and earlier roles as Research Assistant and Trainee Engineer.

His academic interests center on ground improvement techniques such as soft soil stabilization with sustainable materials, shallow and deep ground mixing, interface shear behaviour between soil and geotechnical structures, sustainable slope stabilization methods, analysis of fluid flow in porous and fractured geological reservoirs, carbon storage coupled with hydrocarbon extraction including CO₂-enhanced coalbed methane (ECBM), subsurface fluid flow, geotechnical applications, rock mechanics, and micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) based image analyses of porous media. Sampath has published 21 journal articles, with key works including 'Utilization of fly ash-based geopolymer for well cement during CO₂ sequestration: A comprehensive review and a meta-analysis' (Gas Science and Engineering, 2023), 'A Comprehensive Review of Structural Alterations in CO₂-Interacted Coal: Insights into CO₂ Sequestration in Coal' (Energy & Fuels, 2020), 'CH₄-CO₂ gas exchange and supercritical CO₂ based hydraulic fracturing as CBM production-accelerating techniques: A review' (Journal of CO₂ Utilization, 2017), 'Discrete fracture matrix modelling of fully-coupled CO₂ flow–Deformation processes in fractured coal' (International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 2021), 'CO₂ interaction induced mechanical characteristics alterations in coal: A review' (International Journal of Coal Geology, 2019), 'Modelling of fully-coupled CO₂ diffusion and adsorption-induced coal matrix swelling' (Fuel, 2020), and 'Effect of supercritical-CO₂ interaction time on the alterations in coal pore structure' (Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2020). These contributions advance understanding of CO₂-coal interactions and geomechanical processes relevant to energy and environmental engineering.