S. Ranil Wickramasinghe Source Confirmed

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Federal Grant PI High Impact

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University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

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48 h-index 272 pubs 7,941 cited

Research Areas

Membrane Separation Technologies Wastewater Treatment Desalination Technologies Environmental Remediation Nanomaterials Applications Catalytic Membrane Reactors Biomanufacturing Platforms

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S. Ranil Wickramasinghe's research focuses on membrane separation technologies for environmental applications, including wastewater treatment and desalination. He has published extensively on the development and application of various membrane types, such as porous ceramic membranes, ultrafiltration membranes, and electrospun membranes, for the removal of emerging contaminants and the treatment of produced water. His work also includes investigating the use of supported ionic liquid membrane contactors for selective ion separation.

Wickramasinghe has secured significant federal funding to support his research endeavors. He serves as PI on an NSF I-Corps grant for the translation potential of catalytic membrane reactors and an NSF IUCRC Phase III grant for the Center for Membrane Applications, Science and Technology (MAST). Additionally, he is a Co-PI on an NSF grant for a Membrane Purification Platform for Continuous Biomanufacturing of Viral Vectors and Virus-like Particles and an NSF MRI grant for acquiring a Q/TOF mass spectrometer. He also led an NSF REU Site grant focused on engineering systems for high efficiency separations.

With an h-index of 48 and over 270 publications, Wickramasinghe is recognized as a highly cited researcher. His collaborations include work with Mahmood Jebur, Shu-Ting Chen, Xiaolei Hao, and Chidambaram Thamaraiselvan at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

h-index: 48
Publications: 272
Citations: 7,941

Selected Publications

Downstream Process Intensification for AAV Purification by Affinity Chromatography Using Single Pass Tangential Flow Filtration (2025) DOI
Fabrication of Multimodal Anion Exchange Membrane for Chromatographic Purification of Full Adeno‐Associated Viral Capsids (2025) DOI
A comprehensive review of detection techniques for PFAS compounds in aqueous solution (2025) DOI
Harvesting <scp>AAV</scp> by tangential flow filtration using reverse asymmetric membranes (2025) DOI
Techno‐Economic Analysis of Membrane‐Based Purification Platforms for AAV Vector Production (2025) DOI
Enhancing the Performance of Tangential Flow Microfiltration for Bioreactor Clarification (2025) DOI
Membrane Filtration of Nanoscale Biomaterials: Model System and Membrane Performance Evaluation for AAV2 Viral Vector Clarification and Recovery (2025) DOI
Separation of full and empty adeno-associated virus particles using a novel multi-modal anion exchange membrane (2025) DOI
Enhancing Virus Filter Performance Through Pretreatment by Membrane Adsorbers (2025) DOI
Carbon-Based Nanocomposite Membranes for Membrane Distillation: Progress, Problems and Future Prospects (2024) DOI
A multi-tiered mentoring community approach to research experiences for local students from disadvantaged and underrepresented minority backgrounds (2024) DOI
Role of Microfiltration Membrane Morphology on Nanoparticle Purification to Enhance Downstream Purification of Viral Vectors (2024) DOI
Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in Separations (2024) DOI
Electrocoagulation as a pretreatment for reverse osmosis for potable water from brackish groundwater (2024) DOI
Grand challenges in membrane transport, modeling and simulation (2024) DOI