Can you briefly describe your career?

I graduated from the Ocean University of Sri Lanka with a bachelor of science in fisheries and marine sciences and a gold award. After that, I worked as an assistant manager for seafood quality assurance at a marine fish processing company. I was lucky to receive funding from the Nor-Lanka project, a collaboration between Norway and Sri Lanka, to pursue a master’s degree in fish ecotoxicology at the Arctic University of Norway. I did my thesis in Sri Lanka on tuna processing to get hands-on experience.