Nirmani Ranathunga

Nirmani Ranathunga (Colombo, Sri Lanka) obtained her Bachelor degree in Agricultural Technology and Management from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya in 2012. She received her master's degree in Physical Land Resources (soil science) from Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University in 2017. In 2018, she started working as a joint doctoral researcher between research groups, soil genesis (Ghent University) and Earth and Life institute (Université Catholique de Louvain) under the supervision of Prof. dr. Peter Finke and Prof. dr. Qiuzhen Yin. Funded by the F.R.S.-FNRS MIS (Incentive Grant for Scientific Research) program No F.4529.18 ("QuantLoess" project), her PhD research focused on the paleoclimate-paleosol relations in the Chinese Loess Plateau during the Quaternary Interglacials.