DrHarini Hapuarachchi

Harini Hapuarachchi earned her PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, following a First-Class Honours degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Earlier in her career, she served as a software engineer in the London Stock Exchange Group (Malabe, Sri Lanka).

Following her PhD, Harini served as a sessional lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at UNSW Sydney and held a Research Fellowship within the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science (RMIT node). She then held the prestigious Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of Physics at RMIT University prior to her current role as a Lecturer at the University of Sydney. 

Harini's research focuses on theoretically and computationally investigating pathways to enhance room-temperature quantum technologies, including magnetometry based on colour centres in diamond and Rydberg-atom-based quantum sensors emerging as highly sensitive radio-frequency receivers.

Harini was named one of IEEE Computing's Top 30 Early Career Professionals and received the Rising Star Academic Award for Women of Colour in STEM Australia in 2024, for her research and outreach.