Dr. Gunaalan K., Senior Lecturer in the Department of Fisheries Science, University of Jaffna, is currently undertaking a postdoctoral research appointment at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Spain, from April 2026 to March 2027.

He is affiliated with the Applied Marine Ecology, Fisheries and Plankton Group (EMAPP) at the Institute of Environmental Studies and Natural Resources (IUNAT), where he works with Associate Professor Rodrigo Almeda, leader of the EMAPP research group.

His research investigates how multiple environmental stressors affect marine meroplankton, with particular emphasis on how climate-related changes and anthropogenic pressures influence larval development, survival, settlement, metamorphosis, and recruitment in marine invertebrates.