Sanugi Dassanyake
PhD Project
Investigating the Environmental Impact of the Athabasca Oil Sands Industry Using Ultra-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Funded by the Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA) doctoral programme
Academic Background
- Master of Chemistry (Mchem) in Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry, University of Warwick (2020-2024)
- Current PhD student, funded by CENTA, University of Warwick (2024-2028)
Conferences
- BMSS-BSPR Super Meeting 2024 - Flash Oral and Poster Presentation 'Investigating the Potential of Slender Wheatgrass Roots for Biotransformation of OSPW-derived Compounds using FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry'
- EnvChem2025 - Oral Presentation 'Exploring the ability of various plants to bioremediate OSPW-derived compounds using FT-ICR mass spectrometry'
- BMSS2025 - The 45th annual meeting - Flash Oral and Poster Presentation 'Investigating the Remediation of Oil Sands Process-affected Waters using FT-ICR Mass Spectrometry'
- EnvChem2026 - Oral Presentation 'Effect of Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization Parameters on Diagnostic Information Generated from Common Environmental Contaminants'
- 26th International Mass Spectrometry Conference IMSC 2026 - Poster presentation 'Effects of Ion Source Parameters on the Relative Intensities of the Detected Odd- and Even-Electron Ions using Atmospheric Pressure Photoionization Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry'