Dr. Nilwala Kottegoda is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. She obtained B.Sc.(Peradeniya),  Ph.D.(University of Cambridge, UK).

Her research interests are in  Nanotechnology for agricultural applications water purification/desalination, rubber nano-composites, encapsulation of natural/synthetic drug molecules using nanotechnology, converting natural resources into useful nano-materials.