A. G. Unil Perera is a Sri Lankan-born American physicist with an assortment of research interests in experimental condensed matter physics, especially semiconductor infrared detectors and applications.
After his basic Education in Sri Lanka, he obtained his doctoral degree in (applied) physics from the University of Pittsburgh under the supervision of Darry D. Coon.
He had his pre-college education at Ananda College of Colombo, the premier Buddhist School in Sri Lanka founded by the Theosophical Society headed by the US visionary Henry Steel Olcott.
He was instrumental in establishing joint tri partite research programs with the Institute of Fundamental Science, Hantana, Sri Lanka (IFS) and the IIT- Chennai and GSU.
He as a member of the APS international Affairs committee, organized webinars on “Graduate Studies in US” for the south East Asian audiences.