DrThemiya Nanayakkara

Senior Lecturer (Teaching and Research)

Faculty of Science

RESEARCH INTERESTs

Formation and quenching of massive galaxies in the first few billion years; chemical enrichment at cosmic dawn, including unusual nitrogen and iron abundance patterns; cosmic reionisation and the contribution of faint, low-luminosity galaxies; ionising photon production efficiency and Lyman-continuum escape; spectroscopic surveys, data reduction, calibration and reproducible open data products; and astronomical data science applied to large survey datasets.