Chamil Sameera Wickramarachchi Millawalage

Education & Research Training

2009 Ph.D. University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. 

2010 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. 

Professional Profile

2025 Professor (visiting ), CY Cergy Paris Université, France.

2023 Associate Professor (visiting ), Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan. 

2016 Assistant Professor, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan. 

2014 JSPS fellowship Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, Japan. 

2013 Marie Curie ITN fellowship, Gothenburg University, Sweden.

2011 Researchl fellow, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, Spain. 

Research Interest

Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) methods. 

Systematic determination of reaction mechanisms. 

Computational astrochemistry.

Selected Recent Publications

[1] T. Higaki, K. Tanaka, S. Oishi, K. Kawamoto, M. Tada, W. M. C. Sameera, et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 4, 3215–3222.

[2] A. P Jayaweera, B. Senevirathne, S. Weerasinghe, N. Watanabe, G. Nyman, F. Dulieu, W. M. C. Sameera,* ACS Earth Space Chem. 2024, 8, 7, 1451–1459.

[3] T. Nguyen, Y. Oba, W. M. C. Sameera, et al. Astrophys. J. 2024, 976, 250

[4] BOOOK CHAPTER: W. M. C. Sameera et al. Automated Mechanism Discovery, Comprehensive Computational Chemistry, 2024, 4, 454-484.

[5] W. M. C. Sameera,* et al. Faraday Discuss, 2023, 245, 508-518. 

[6] Y. Nakai, W. M. C. Sameera, et al. Astrophys. J. 2023. 953, 162.

[7] Ohki, K. Munakata, R. Hara, M. Kachi, K. Uchida, M. Tada, R. E. Cramer, W. M. C. Sameera, et al. Nature, 2022, 607, 86-90. 

[8] REVIEW: W. M. C. Sameera,* et al. Front. Astron. Space Sci. 2022, 9, 890161. 

[9] T. Nguyen, Y. Oba, W. M. C. Sameera, et al. Astrophys. J. 2021, 922, 146. 

[10] T. Fujita, M. Yamane, W. M. C. Sameera, et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 24598-24604.