Kumar Wickramasinghe | |
|---|---|
| Born | Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe |
| Education | King's College London (BSc) University College London (PhD) |
| Known for | Scanning thermal microscopy |
| Awards | Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science (2000) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Scanning probe microscopy Nanotechnology Nanobiotechnology |
| Workplaces | University of California, Irvine |
| Thesis | Two and Three Dimensional Acoustic Holography in Solids (1974) |
| Eric Ash | |
| Website | engineering |
Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe is a British scientist who is Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.
He graduated from King's College London with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London in 1974 where his advisor was Eric Ash.
He was awarded the Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science in 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019. He is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit.
He is the brother of noted mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe.