Education
Ph.D. in Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, USA (2017-2020).
M.Phil. in Crop Science, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2013-2016).
B.Sc. in Agricultural Technology and Management, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2008-2012).
Employment
Senior Lecturer in Agronomy, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka (June 2022 - to date).
Lecturer in Crop Science, Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Eastern University, Sri Lanka (March 2021 - June 2022).
Research Fellow, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University, USA (January - March 2021).
Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA (January 2017-December 2020)
Graduate Research Assistant, Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (September 2013- December 2016).
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (November 2012-August 2013).
Biography
Eeswaran, currently a Senior Lecturer in Agronomy at the Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. His research interests are agronomy, agricultural climatology, climate risk management, crop physiology, crop modelling, data science in agriculture and long-term agricultural experiments.
Eeswaran earned his Ph.D. in Crop and Soil Sciences from the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University (MSU), USA in December 2020. He also specialized in Ecological Food and Farming Systems at MSU. As a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University (2017-2020), he won several awards and competitive fellowships from MSU and other funding agencies in the United States. In addition, Eeswaran served as a graduate student board member of the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) for the period of 2019-2021.
After the completion of PhD, he was hired as a Research Associate for a USAID funded project on Digital Geospatial Farming Systems Tools Consortium by the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University. In March 2021, he joined as a Lecturer in Crop Science at the Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Eastern University, Vanthaarumoolai, Sri Lanka and served in this position until he was recruited by University of Jaffna in June 2022.
During his doctoral studies (2017-2020), Eeswaran has functioned in the roles of Teaching Assistant (TA) and Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) at Michigan State University. Furthermore, he was employed as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya (2013-2016) and as an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Crop Science, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (2012-2013).
He earned his M.Phil. (Crop Science) and B.Sc. (Agricultural Technology and Management) degrees from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Positions Held and Contributions at the University
Coordinator/Academic Mentoring Committee, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna (March, 2023- to date)
Student Counsellor, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna (March 2023 - to date)
Member, Equipment Working Group, JICA Project for Research and Education Capacity Improvement in Dry Zone Agriculture at University of Jaffna (PRECIDA-UOJ) (October, 2022 - to date)
Coordinator, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna (August, 2022 - to date)
Member, Senate Standing Committee on Quality Assurance, University of Jaffna (August, 2022 - to date)
Member, University Ranking Enhancement Committee, University of Jaffna (August, 2022 - to date)
Coordinator, Industrial Training, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna (August, 2022 - to date)
Member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jaffna (June, 2022 - to date)
Student Counsellor, Faculty of Agriculture, Eastern University, Sri Lanka (January 2022 - June 2022)
Member of the committee for the UI Green Metric Award, Faculty of Agriculture, Eastern University, Sri Lanka (2022)
Editor/ Faculty Newsletter, Faculty of Agriculture, Eastern University, Sri Lanka (2021)
Coordinator/ Orientation program for the new entrants (2019/2020), Faculty of Agriculture, Eastern University, Sri Lanka (2021)
National and International Contributions
Reviewer for the following indexed international journals
Agronomy for Sustainable Development (Springer)
Journal of Environmental Management (Elsevier)
Crop Science (Wiley)
Plos One
Water Resources Management (Springer)
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (American Society of Civil Engineers-ASCE)
Agronomy (MDPI)
Agriculture (MDPI)
Horticulturae (MDPI)
Remote Sensing (MDPI)
Reviewer for the following local journals
Journal of Agriculture Science (AGRIEAST), Eastern University, Sri Lanka
Journal of Dry Zone Agriculture (JDZA), University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Vingnanam Journal of Science, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Reviewer for the following conferences
3rd International Symposium on Agriculture (ISA-2023), Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
International Conference on Dry Zone Agriculture – ICDA 2022, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
International Research Conference of Uwa Wellessa University (IRCUWU 2022), Uwa Wellessa University of Sri Lanka, Badulla, Sri Lanka.
5th National Symposium on Agriculture (NSA-2022), Eastern University, Sri Lanka.
SLIIT International Conference on Advancements in Sciences and Humanities (SICASH-2021), Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
International Conference on Dry Zone Agriculture – ICDA 2021, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Second National Symposium on Agro Technology and Rural Sciences - NSATRS 2021, University of Colombo Institute for Agro-technology and Rural Sciences (UCIARS), Weligatha, Hambantota, Sri Lanka.
National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2021, Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), Washington, DC, USA.