Lal Muthuwatta

Researcher - Hydrology-Hydrological Modelling, Deputy Country Manager - Sri Lanka, CGIAR Country Convener - Sri Lanka

Research team

Water, food and ecosystems > Sustainable water infrastructure and ecosystems

Areas of expertise

spatial modelling hydrological modeling water resources assessment geographic information system (gis) remote sensing Climate change groundwater monitoring

Lal worked at the Open University of Sri Lanka and the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka as an Academic Staff Member from 1991 to 1993. He was involved with teaching mathematics and numerical modeling courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as a GIS Expert at the Malaria Research Institute attached to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo. From 1995 to 1996, Lal was a Visiting Academic at the University of Colombo and the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. During that period, he was involved with helping research students on spatial modeling.