Affiliation: Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy
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Viktorija Vaštakaitė-Kairienė is a Vice-chair of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences Young Academy, a Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry Institute of Horticulture, and an Associate Professor at Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy.
Viktorija defended her doctoral thesis, ‘The Photophysiological Aspects for the Management of Metabolites and Mineral Elements in Brassicaceae Microgreens’ in 2018. Currently, her work focuses on developing non-destructive methods of harmful organisms and applying biological and alternative plant protection products and technologies in horticulture. In addition, she is teaching students of plant physiology, morphology and mineral nutrition at various study levels.
Viktorija participates(-ed) in high-level R&D and other projects financed by the Research Council of Lithuania and with(-out) European Union funds and Lithuanian Business Support Agency projects. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Nature Research Centre in Lithuania (2020-2022). Viktorija had internships at the University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland, Michigan State University in the USA, the University of Padova in Italy, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. With co-authors, she published over 50 scientific publications, including three chapters in books by international publishers and a scientific study published by the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. She has given over 60 presentations at national and international conferences in the USA, China, Turkey, Austria, Sicily, Latvia, Poland, Latvia, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Viktorija actively participates in the activities of the international societies EPSO, ISHS, and ASHS and seminars in Lithuania and abroad. She is an alumni council member of the Baltic-American Freedom Foundation. Since 2022 she is a Board member at the Young Academies Science Advice Structure (YASAS).
She is awarded a scholarship for young scientists, a prize and a certificate of merit from the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and a National scholarship from the World Federation of Scientists.