Research
Research of the Galaxy
- Chemodynamical evolution of the Galaxy
Mixing in stellar atmospheres
- Helium-core-burning stars in the Galactic field and clusters
Research of exoplanets
- Chemical composition of stars with exoplanets
- Characterization of exoplanets
Projects
- 2020 – EUROPLANET 2024: the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement
- 2018 – RCL project Stellar and exoplanet investigations in the context of the TESS and JWST space missions
- 2016 – 2018 PI of RCL project Spectroscopic and Photometric Survey of Northern Sky for the ESA PLATO space mission
- 2015 – 2018 RCL project CNOPGS: carbon, nitrogen and oxygen abundances in stars of the Galactic open clusters
- 2012 – 2015 RCL project ADAMANT: database of atomic data.
- 2013 – 2014 CNRS (France) project GALITH: research of the Galactic structure
- 2008 – 2010 FP7 project BalticGrid-II: Development of parallel computing infrastructure in Baltic states
- 2006 – 2009 ŠMM programme LitGrid: Development of parallel computing infrastructure in Lithuania
- 2007 – 2008 NMSF project GridTechno: parallelization of scientific applications
- 2006 – 2008 FP6 project BalticGrid-I: Development of parallel computing infrastructure in Baltic states
Other Activities
Presentations
35 oral or poster presentations at international conferences;
Invited speaker: The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) 2014 second science meeting, The chemical structure of the Galactic discs, November 10-13, 2104, Porto, Portugal;
Invited speaker: European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS 2017), Ground- based Observations for Exoplanetary Space Missions, June 26-30, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic;
Invited speaker: European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS 2018), The dual nature of the Galactic disc, April 3-6, 2018, Liverpool, UK.
Educational activities
Supervisor of PhD student: Markus Ambrosch, since 2019
Teaching part of General university studies course: Introduction to Astronomy
Teaching part of Physic Faculty course: Introduction to Programming
Organizing of scientific conferences
Member of the SOC of the international conference “MW-Gaia: Star Clusters: the Gaia Revolution”, 5 – 7, October 2021 2021 (virtual);
Chair of the LOC of the international conference “MW-Gaia: Bringing the Milky Way to schools 2021”, 2 – 4 June 2021 (virtual);
Chair of the LOC of the Gaia-ESO Third Science Meeting, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2015, December 1 – 4.
Organizing of scientific research courses
Member of SOC and LOC, Europlanet virtual Summer School 2021, Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, 2021, August 16 – 27;
Chair of SOC, JWST Master Class Local Workshop, Vilnius, 2020, 20 – 21 February;
Member of SOC and LOC, Europlanet Summer School 2019, Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, 2019, June 11 – 21;
Member of SOC and LOC, Europlanet Summer School 2018, Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, 2018, July 31 – August 10;
Member of SOC and LOC, Europlanet Summer School 2017, Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, 2017, July 18 – 28;
Member of LOC, European Astrobiology Campus Summer School "Exoplanets 2016", Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, 2016, August 2 – 12;
Member of LOC, European Astrobiology Campus Summer School "Formation and evolution of planetary systems and habitable planets", Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, 2015, August, 21 - 30;
Member of SOC and LOC, Nordforsk summer school "Observational Stellar Astrophysics in the Era of Gaia and Kepler Space Missions", 2012, July 28 – August 11;
Member of LOC, The ninth Neon Observing school, Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, 2011, July 14 – 27;
Member of SOC and LOC, BalticGrid-II Summer School, Molėtai Astronomical Observatory, 2009, June 29 – July 3.
Outreach
Around 14 outreach papers were published on-line. 5 radio/TV interview. More than 40 outreach presentations various events (e.g. "European Researchers' Night“, "UN International Year of Astronomy 2009“, etc.);
Nationl Outreach Communicator of the IAU in Lithuania, 2018 – present.
Other academic activities
Member of The International Astronomical Union (IAU);
Vice Nationl Outreach Communicator of the IAU in Lithuania, 2018-present;
Member of IAU Commission G3 “Stellar Evolution”;
Member of The European Astronomical Society (EAS);
Member of The Lithuanian Astronomical Society (LAS).
About Myself
Education
2007 – 2012 Ph.D. (Astrophysics), Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania;
2003 – 2005 M.Sc (Theoretical Physics) Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania;
1999 – 2003 B.Sc (Physics) Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Employment
2018 – Senior Researcher, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius University, Vilnius;
2015 – 2018 Researcher, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius University, Vilnius;
2013 – 2014 Post-Doc researcher, L'Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA), Nice, France;
2005 – 2012 Junior researcher, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy, Vilnius University, Vilnius;
2004 – 2005 Teacher (Physics, IT), J. Dobkevičius High School, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Grants
14 various grants for attending conferences, courses, etc.;
2015 LMT grant for the conference Gaia-ESO Survey Third Science Meeting 2015;
2013 Post-Doc. Research grant from L'Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA), Nice, France;
2012 Grant of French embassy in Lithuania for cultural and scientific relations.
IT
The development and managing of multiprocessor computing. Parallelization of scientific applications (e.g. the pipeline for up to 1000 CPU was created on OCA-Mesocentre supercomputer for spectroscopic data analysis and research of chemical composition of stellar atmospheres).
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