{"id":2541,"date":"2026-03-29T12:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/?page_id=2541"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:22:18","slug":"dilan-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/people\/dilan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uds-person-profile is-style-large\" style=\"\"><div class=\"profile-img-container\"><div class=\"profile-img-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/2026\/02\/Dilan-150x150.jpg\" class=\"profile-img\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"person\"><div class=\"person-name\"><h3 class=\"person-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/people\/dilan-2\/\">Charles (Dilan) Kuranage<\/a><\/h3><\/div><div class=\"person-profession\"><h4><span>PhD Student<\/span><\/h4><\/div><ul class=\"person-contact-info\"><li><a href=\"mailto:ckuranag@asu.edu\" aria-label=\"Mail to: ckuranag@asu.edu\" data-ga-event=\"link\" data-ga-action=\"click\" data-ga-name=\"onclick\" data-ga-type=\"internal link\" data-ga-region=\"main content\" data-ga-section=\"Charles (Dilan) Kuranage\" data-ga=\"ckuranag@asu.edu\">ckuranag@asu.edu<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div><p class=\"person-description\">Born and raised in France, he completed his higher education at Sorbonne Universit\u00e9 and Cachan (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay) and earned his Master\u2019s in Mechanical Engineering from ESIEE Paris, focusing on composite materials. He then worked at Expliseat as a Certification Engineer, specializing in lightweight carbon-fiber aircraft seats.\u2028In Spring 2026, he joined Arizona State University as a PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering and as a member of the DEfECT Lab, where his research focuses on solar energy and advanced materials for sustainable technologies. Outside the lab, he enjoys building model kits, listening to independent, alternative, and metal music.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2541","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2541\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.engineering.asu.edu\/defectlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}