Chamindi Malalgoda is a Senior Lecturer and the Quantity Surveying Course Leader in the Department of Design and Architecture at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Huddersfield, UK. She is also a core member of the University’s Global Disaster Resilience Centre (GDRC), a leading international hub for multidisciplinary research on disaster risk reduction and resilience. Her research focuses on disaster risk reduction, climate resilience, and strengthening the capacity of the built environment to support communities before, during, and after disasters.

She has an extensive publication record, with over 65 academic contributions. She has co‑edited two major Springer volumes—Climate Change Adaptation in the Built Environment (2025) and Rebuilding Communities After Displacement (2023)—demonstrating her leadership in advancing knowledge on climate adaptation, resilience, and displacement within the built environment sector. Dr. Malalgoda also serves on the Editorial Board of SAGE Open (Environmental Studies), is a topical advisory member of MDPI Sustainability, and is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment. She serves as an External Examiner for Quantity Surveying at Birmingham City University (2023–2027) and as an External Examiner for Construction Management and Construction Project Management programmes at the University of Brighton (2022–2026).

Dr. Malalgoda has played a leading role in several European‑funded research initiatives, serving as either Principal Investigator or Co‑Investigator on projects related to disaster resilience and management. She has successfully led and delivered research grants funded by the Erasmus+ programme under both Strategic Partnerships and International Credit Mobility. Notable projects include REGARD (Rebuilding After Displacement), completed in March 2022, and CCA‑DRR (Tackling Climate Change as an Underlying Disaster Risk Driver), completed in September 2023. She obtained her PhD from the University of Salford, UK, in 2014, focusing on empowering local governments to enhance urban resilience to disasters.

Prior to joining the University of Huddersfield in December 2014, she worked as a Research Assistant at the School of the Built Environment, University of Salford, contributing to multiple EU‑funded research projects. These include CADRE (Collaborative Action towards Disaster Resilience Education), RESINT (Collaborative Reformation of Curricula on Resilience Management with Intelligent Systems in Open Source and Augmented Reality), CENEAST (Reformation of the Curricula on Built Environment in the Eastern Neighbouring Area), BELLCURVE (Built Environment Lifelong Learning Challenging University Responses to Vocational Education), and ANDROID (Academic Network for Disaster Resilience to Optimise Educational Development).

Before pursuing her postgraduate research, Dr. Malalgoda worked as a Quantity Surveyor in the United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka, after obtaining her First‑Class Honours degree in Quantity Surveying. Her contributions have earned several prestigious awards, including the UK UALL International Award (2018) for the CADRE project, the Best Paper Award at the CIB World Building Congress 2016, and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Award for Best Overall Paper at the 11th International Postgraduate Research Conference (IPGRC 2013).