Mahanama Maheshani Wimalathunga is a researcher with expertise in food science and nutrition. She holds a Bachelor of Science in food science and nutrition from Wayamba University, Master of Science in food science and nutrition from the University of Kelaniya, both in Sri Lanka, and further pursued a Master of Arts in leadership in the healthcare stream from Trinity Western University in Canada. Her MSc research focused on a proof-of-concept study investigating the effect of symbiotic, both probiotic and prebiotic, supplementation on patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Mahanama Maheshani Wimalathunga has over five years of clinical experience as a dietician and nutritionist at Durdans Hospital in Sri Lanka where she specialized in medical nutrition therapy and patient nutrition counseling for chronic diseases. She also worked as a development officer in Sri Lanka’s Samurdhi Department, implementing community nutrition, social welfare, and livelihood development programs. Mahanama Maheshani Wimalathunga’s research focus is on clinical nutrition, gut microbiota, dietary interventions, and community health, and her studies exploring undernutrition and dietary diversity among institutionalized elderly in Sri Lanka have been published in Public Health Nutrition and the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society.