ආචාර්ය පියල් ආරියනන්ද, ජීව අකාබනික රසායන විද්‍යාව අංශයෙන් ඇමරිකාවේ ඩෙලවෙයා විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයෙන් ආචාර්ය උපාධිය ලබා වසර කිහිපයක් එහිම විද්‍යා පර්යේෂකයෙකු ලෙස සේවය කර, ජර්මනියේ BASF රසායන ආයතනයෙහි රසායනික උත්ප්‍රේරක සම්බන්ධයෙන් පර්යේෂණ කළ විද්‍යාඥයෙකි.
හරිතාගාර ආචරණයට ප්‍රධාන දායකත්‍වයක් දක්වන කාබන් ඩයොක්සයිඩ් වායුව රසායනික සංයෝගවලට පරිවර්තනය කළහැකි රසායනික පර්යේෂණවලට ඉතා ඉහළ දායකත්‍වයක් දී ඇත.
ලංකාවට පැමිණි පසු මයිඩාස් සේෆ්ටි ආයතනයෙහි පර්යේෂණ ප්‍රධානී වශයෙන් ද කටයුතු කර, දැනට MAS Holdings අනුබද්ධ Bodyline ආයතනයෙහි නවෝත්පාදන ප්‍රධානී වශයෙන් කටයුතු කරයි.
රැකියාවට අමතරව ඔහු විද්‍යාත්මක Blog අඩවියක් ද, රිවිර -රිවිනෙත කලාපයට සතිපතා ලිපි පළකරන විද්‍යා ලේඛකයෙකි.
මෙයට අමතරව ඔහු නවෝත්පාදන සහ නිර්මාණශීලීත්‍වය පිළිබඳව දේශන සහ වැඩමුළු ද පවත්වයි.
Dr. Piyal Ariyananda was schooled at Mahinda College, Galle and obtained his first degree at the Institute of Chemistry, Ceylon. He excelled the studies being the Batch top in the First year and overall Batch second in the final year exams. After two years of work as a chemist at the Unilever Sri Lanka, Dr. Piyal received a scholarship to pursue his Masters Degree at the university of Louisiana, Monroe where he became the most outstanding Graduate student of the Department of Chemistry in 2003 at his graduation.
Dr. Piyal did his Ph.D at University of Delaware, with another scholarship to study his Ph.D in Chemistry, where he studied the conversion of Carbon Dioxide to useful chemical compounds. After graduation with a Ph.D he continued the research at the same university in Energy generation through Carbon Dioxide conversion for two years.
Dr. Piyal was offered a scientist position at the Catalytic Research Lab at BASF – Germany and prior to return to Sri Lanka, He worked on converting Carbon Dioxide to Superabsorbant materials, which are used in Diapers if simply explained.
Prior to the current assignment, Dr. Piyal headed the R&D team at Midas Safety, a safety and sports glove manufacturing organization located in the Export processing zones in Sri Lanka. His team introduced several new products and technologies into the glove industry, which includes a recent international patent on a new method of making a special type of a coating. His team won the most outstanding innovation team Gold award, in the 2015 National Chamber of Exporters’ award Ceremony.
Dr. Piyal is currently heading the Bodyline Innovation team in General Manager capacity. Bodyline is one of the largest business units in MAS holdings with over 15000 employees. He uses the latest innovation methods in the world to innovate the products, and new business models to cater the latest trends in apparel market.
Apart from his professional work, He is a science communicator and he writes a special article in Sunday Rivira – Rivinetha, and a science fiction to the same paper. He is also a trainer of Science teachers working with the department of education, and the secretary of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Sri Lanka Section.
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