Name:
Ranil Gurusinghe, Ph.D.
Name:
Ranil Gurusinghe, Ph.D.
Title:
Assistant Professor
Department:
Chemistry
Email Address:
Phone:
(931) 372-6849
Office:
Lab Science Commons, Rm 2316
Education:
Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Kent State University, 2016
BS, Chemistry, University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka), 2010
Professional Experience:
Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry, 2022 - Current
Research Scientist, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2019 - 2022
R&D Scientist, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, 2016 鈥� 2019
Research:
Gurusinghe Lab, 鈥淕ru Lab鈥�, studies spectroscopy, reaction dynamics, and kinetics using
various Fourier transform microwave and millimeterwave (FTMW and FTmmW) spectroscopic
and resonance-enhanced ionization techniques that are developed and implemented in
our laboratory.
Areas of research interest:
Gru lab welcomes TTU students who are interested in learning and implementing spectroscopic instrument development, laser techniques, molecular beams, spectroscopic data fitting, and computational modeling.
Key Publications:
R.M. Gurusinghe, N. Dias, R. Krueger, A. G. Suits. 鈥淯niform supersonic flow sampling for detection by chirped-pulse rotational spectroscopy鈥�, J. Chem. Phys. 156, 014202 (2022).
R.M. Gurusinghe, N. Dias, A. M. Mebel, A. G. Suits. 鈥淩adical鈥揜adical Reaction Dynamics Probed Using Millimeterwave Spectroscopy: Propargyl + NH2/ND2鈥�, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 91鈥�97 (2022).
R. M. Gurusinghe, A. Fox-Loe, M. J. Tubergen. 鈥淪tructures of guaiacol and the guaiacol-argon van der Waals complex from rotational spectroscopy of guaiacol isotopologues鈥�. J. Mol. Struct. 1246 (2021).
R. M. Gurusinghe, M. J. Tubergen. 鈥淧robing the Electronic Environment of Methylindoles using Internal Rotation and 14N Nuclear Quadrupole Coupling鈥�. J. Phys. Chem. A 2016, 120, 3491鈥�3496 (2016).