American Coatings Show 2018

Raymond Fernando

California Polytechnic State University


Professor Ray Fernando has been the occupant of the Arthur C. Edwards Endowed Chair in Coatings Technology and Ecology within the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at California Polytechnic State University since 2002. He is also the director of Cal Poly’s Kenneth N Edwards Western Coatings Technology Center. Ray received his Chemistry B.Sc. degree in 1979 from Sri Jayewardenepura University in Sri Lanka and his Polymers and Coatings Ph.D. in 1986 from North Dakota State University, emphasizing studies in the coating rheology field. He has fifteen years of industrial experience in coatings. He was a Lead Research Scientist in R&D at Air Products and Chemicals for three years. Prior to that, Ray was a Program Manager for Armstrong World Industries, running the coating research program that supported global manufacturing and marketing needs of Armstrong Building Products Division. Ray received the American Coatings Association’s Joseph J Mattiello Award in 2018 and American Chemical Society’s Roy W Tess Award in 2019.

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