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Dr Dilhan Manawadu

Dilhan is a quantum computational chemist at the University of Liverpool. Originally from Sri Lanka, he obtained his BSc, specialising in Chemistry, from the University of Colombo. He joined the University of Oxford in 2018, where he received an MSc in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, followed by a DPhil investigating the photoexcitations of linear polyenes using Density Matrix Renormalisation Group (DMRG) techniques. He then joined the STFC Hartree Centre as a Quantum Software Engineer, working on a range of projects developing and deploying quantum computing algorithms for industry-relevant research problems in chemistry.

In September 2026, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Liverpool as a tenure-track fellow.

Kajanann Karunaivel

Kajanann is an MChem student at the Department of Chemistry.

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