Buddhini Waidyawansa is a Lecturer in Physics at Louisiana Tech University. She conducts research in the field of experimental precision electroweak measurements
at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia. In her role, she
serves as a lab coordinator and TA supervisor for the sophomore physics labs.
Buddhini completed her undergraduate degree in engineering physics at the University
of Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2002, and earned her doctorate in Physics from Ohio University
in Athens, Ohio, in 2013. She then joined the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator
Facility as a Hall C postdoctoral fellow working on the 12 GeV upgrades. In 2015,
she moved to Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois to work as a senior postdoctoral
fellow.
In 2020, she joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at Louisiana Tech University
as an instructor for the PHYS2611 and PHYS2621 lab courses. Her current research involves
developing data analysis software and tools for the MOLLER experiment at Jefferson
Lab, which is scheduled to begin data collection in the summer of 2027.
