Associate Professor Muttucumaru Sivakumar areas of expertise include water quality and water resources engineering; Pollutant export from urban catchments; Water and wastewater treatment; Environmental hydraulics and Modelling; Sediment transport. He received his BSc Eng at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 1970-1974. He also has a MEng, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand 1975â€1976 and completed his PhD, University of Newcastle, Australia, 1977-1981. He was also visiting Professor and held academic positions in University of Minnesota, USA; University of Hiedelberg, Germany; Shenyang University, China; Indian Institute of Science, India; Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India; Sri Sathya Sai University, India and James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.