PhD, in Atmospheric Physics, University of Colombo 2015

BSc ,Honors degree in Physics (First class), University of Jaffna, 2005  

• Member: Faculty board of Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka

• Academic Counselor, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka -2020

PHY203G2: Optics and special relativity
PHY205G2: Computational Physics
PHY302G3: Modern physics
PHY409M3: Energy Physics
ENS301G2: Environmental Physics
PHY403M3: Advanced solid state Physics

Journal article  

• Thevakaran and D.U.J. Sonnadara (2013) Reconstruction of Missing Monthly Temperature Observations in  Jaffna – Sri Lanka, J. National Science Foundation .
• Thevakaran, J.L. McGregor, J. Katzfey, P. Hoffmann, R. Suppiah and D.U.J. Sonnadara (2015) An Assessment of CSIRO  Conformal Cubic Atmospheric Model simulations  over Sri Lanka, J. Climate Dynamics DOI 10.1007/s 00382-015-2680-4.
• A .Thevakaran and D.U.J. Sonnadar (2018) Estimating missing daily temperature extremes in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Theoretical and applied climatology 132, 145-152.
• A .Thevakaran Suppiah and D.U.J Sonnaar(2019), Trends in extreme rainfall events in Sri Lanka, 1961-2010, Journal of National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka

Conference Abstracts 

• Gnanapiragasam, A. Thevakaran, S. Sivaraya and P. Ravirajan, 14th Annual Sessions of Jaffna Science Association, Jaffna, 26-28, April 2006 (14) 6. (ISSN 1800-1289)
• Thevakaran and D.U.J. Sonnadara Reconstructing Monthly Temperature Time Series in Jaffna: A Neural Network Approach, University of Jaffna international research conference (2012).
• Thevakaran and D.U.J. Sonnadara. Performance of neural network model in estimating daily maximum and minimum temperature in Jaffna , Annual research symposium 2012, university of Colombo.
• Thevakaran, J.L. McGregor, J. Katzfey, P. Hoffmann, R. Suppiah and D.U.J. Sonnadara: High Resolution Climate Change Projections for Sri Lanka, HETC symposium (2014)
• Thevakaran, J.L. McGregor, J. Katzfey, M.Thatcher, R. Suppiah and D.U.J. Sonnadara Changes in extreme rainfall events: Results from the CCAM simulations over Sri Lanka . Annual research symposium-2014 university of Colombo
• Thevakaran, J.L. McGregor, J. Katzfey, M.Thatcher, R. Suppiah and D.U.J. Sonnadara Evaluation of downscaled climate projection over Sri Lanka. Institute of Physics, Sri Lanka (2015)
• Thevakaran, J.L. McGregor, J. Katzfey, M.Thatcher, R. Suppiah and D.U.J. Sonnadara(2017), Climate Change Projections Over Sri Lanka, International Conference on Computational Modeling and Simulation (ICCMS)At: Sri Lanka
• Subasinghe,P.T.N.S, Pathmatahas,T.,Thevakaran,A and Vimoochan ,K (2018) Investigation of thermal conductivity of waste material for building construction in destination with warm weather, Vinganam International Research Conference (VIRC)
• Tushyanthy and A.Thevakaran (2020), Electricity generation from waste vegetables and fruits by using double chamber microbial fuel cell, 27th Annual Sessions of Jaffna Science Association, Jaffna
• M Rajapaksha, A Thevakaran (2021) Sound level measurement and the setback distance of the wind turbine, URS, Department of physics, University of Jaffna

• Sir Arunachalam Mahadeva Memorial Prize in Physics for the best performance in the honors degree examination in science (Physics) 2003.
• University Prize (Thambiah Mudaliyar Chatrum Trust) for the best performance in the honors degree examination in science
• Award of scholarship for the MPhil/PhD Program under the HETC project, 2011.
• Presidential awards for scientific publication (2016)

• South Asia Regional workshop on ‘ Future Earth’ at Divecha Center for Climate Change, IISc, 20-21 July 2017
• International Symposium on Nanomaterials for Clean Energy and Health Application (ISNCHA 2017) Coimbatore Institute of Technology, 6-8 December 2017