EDUCATION
2013 Accreditation to supervise research (HDR)“Strain and chemical engineering of functional oxides: from single crystals to thin films and nanostructures”(HDR permits to supervise PhD students and to be a candidate to a full professor position), University of Lorraine, France
2008 PhD “Stress effects and phase transitions in PbTiO3 thin films deposited by MOCVD, Award -Best PhD thesis 2009, Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP), France. Supervisors: DR F. Weiss (Grenoble INP) & Prof. A. Abrutis (University of Vilnius)
2004 Master of Science in Chemistry, Award «Magnus cum laude» (maximal grade), Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vilnius, Lithuania
2002 Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Award « Very good » (maximal grade), Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vilnius, Lithuania
CURRENT POSITIONS
• Since 09/2019 Full Professor (1st class since 09/2022), CNU28 « Advanced material architectures for the next, generation of acoustic RF filters and sensors, energy harvesters and integrated photonics and optomechanical devices », FEMTO-ST Institute, Physics Depart./UFR ST, University of Franche-Comté
2024 – 2025 Visiting Scholar, Prof. S. Trolier-McKinstry group, MRI, Penn State University , USA
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2014 –2019 Chaire of Excellence, Laboratory of Excellence ACTION, FEMTO-ST Institute, University of Franche-Comté (UFC), France
Invited stays: Univ. California – Berkeley (7d., 2019), Univ. Catania (7d., 2017)
2013 – 2014 Visiting Scholar (sabbatical leave), Prof. E. Mazur group, SEAS, University of Harvard , USA
2009 – Associate Professor (Section 30 of National Council of Universities, CNU), detached until 12/2019, Jean Lamour Institute/ Department of Physics/ University of Lorraine/France
2008 – 2009 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Prof. A.M. Glazer group, Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK
2008 – 2008 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Dr. J. Kreisel, LMGP, Grenoble INP, France
2001 – 2004 Research Assistant, Prof. A. Abrutis group, Faculty of Chemistry, Vilnius Univ., Lithuania
AWARDS
• 2022-2027 Junior member of Institut Universitaire de France, Innovation chair
• 2020 Financial bonys, PEDR, Level A, CNU 28, University of Franche-Comté
• 2014-2019 Chair of Excellence, Labex ACTION, FEMTO-ST Institute
• 2013 Financial bonus, PES, Level A, CNU 30, University of Lorraine
• 2008 Award Best PhD thesis, Grenoble INP
• 2007 Best Student Paper, IEEE-TUFFC, Int. conference ISAF, Nara, Japan
• 2006 Fellowship EIFFEL, EGIDE, France
• 2005 Award "Best Student Work - Hard Sciences" Academy of Sciences, Lithuania
• 2004 Master's degree “Magnus Cum Laude”, 10 best students of the Vilnius Univ.
• 2004 &2003 Congratulations on exceptional research results, Vilnius Univ., Lithuania
• 1998 &1997 4th prize, National Chemistry Olympiad, Lithuania
• 1996 3rd prize, National Chemistry Olympiad, Lithuania
AWARDS OF MY PHD STUDENTS
• 2023 I. Labbaveettil, Best Poster, Conf. Int. EUROCVD, Leuven, Belgium
• 2023 I. Labbaveettil, Best Poster, Summer School AMAES, Assois, France
• 2021 i-PhD Grand Prix G. Clementi (France)
• 2021 G. Clementi, Best Oral Presentation, National Workshop JNRSE, Grenoble (FR)
• 2017 S. Kuprenaite, Best Oral Presentation, Int. Conference ISIF, Delhi, India
• 2016 S. Oliveri, Best Poster, IEEE-TUFFC, Conf. Int. ISAF, Darmstadt, Germany
• 2016 S. Oliveri, Best Posterr, Int. Workshop AMAES, Cologne, Germany
COLLECTIVE RESPONSABILITIES
• Coordinator of Training activities of EuroNanoLab ( European network of 54 academic cleanrooms, since 2022)
• Member of national scientific council, Institut Universitaire de France (since 2024)
• Merber of national office, Institut Universitaire de France (since 2023)
• Deputy director of the FEMTO-ST Institute (750 people, 2020-2023)
• President of the Scientific Council of the FEMTO-ST Institute (2020-2023)
• management Committee member of the MIMENTO cleanroom/Renatech (since 2018)
• Head of research action committee, EUR Graduate School EIPHI (since 2020)
• Founder and member of the Women Chapter of the FEMTO-ST Institute in 2020
• Member of the Academic Council, Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comté (UBFC) (since 2020)
• Member of the UBFC Research Ethics Board (REB) (2021-2022)
• Member of the UBFC Committee for UBFC status (since 2021)
• Organizer of the internal seminars of the TF department, FEMTO-ST Institute (2017-2020)
• Member of the "Health and Safety Committee", FEMTO-ST (since 2016)
• Member of the steering committee of the CMDO+ national network (since 2019).
Representative of the FEMTO-ST institute in national network GDR OXYFUN (since 2014)
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2019 – Full Professor & IUF Chaire (64h/year) – Piezoelectrics & Microfabrication, Physics Department/University of Franche-Comté/ France
2014 –2019 Chaire of Excellence (64h/year) – Piezoelectrics & Microfabrication, Electronics Department/University of Franche-Comté/ France
2009 – 2013 Associate Professor (192h/year) – Physics, Physics Department /University of Lorraine, France
2008 – 2009 Teaching assistant (24h)– Optics Practicals, Physics Department/Oxford University, UK
SCIENTIFIC RESPONSABILITIES & EXPERTISE
• Reviewer in more than 20 international journals
• Jury of HDR (1), Reviewer of theses (5), Thesis Examiner (5), Vice-President of the jury (1), Monitoring Committee (1) of which 4 times abroad
• Member of international committee of 3 regular conferences (IUS, MCARE, CIMTEC), national conference (Optique/CMDO+), session chair (7 international conferences)
• Editor: “Review editor” -Journal « Experimental results » Cambridge University Press (2019-2023) “Guest editor” – Institutional Focus Collection on Renatech-Nanotechnology “, IOP Nanotechnology (2023)
• Expertise: vice-president of selection committee of Swedish council (2022-2024), French national ANR (Call 2022), expert for ANR (AAP 2014 et 2016), ANRT, Project region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
• Trainer : Training for MSCA-ITN Project Coordinators, Ministry MESRI (2017 – 2019)
Scientific Advisor
2018-2022, responsible for "high temperature SAW sensors", WIKA group (FR-DE)
Since 02/2020, materials for optical modulators, Exail (FR)
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2018 Member of International Advisory Board & Chair of topical track “vibrational energy harvesters”, ISEPD-International Symposium on Eco-materials Processing and Design (500 participants), India
2018 Member of International Advisory Board, International Conference on Modern Materials and Technologies, CIMTEC 2018 & the 8th Forum on New Materials (600 participants), Italy
2018 Local organizing committee member, French National Conference “JNRSE- 8ème Journées Nationales sur la Récupération et le Stockage d’Energie) (150 participants), France
2015, 2017 Scientific committee member of international conference MCARE “Materials Challenges in Alternative & Renewable Energy” (500 participants), Korea
2017 Co-organizer of session “Multifunctional Nanomaterials for Energy and Sensing Devices”, PacRim12- Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology (1200 participants), USA
2015 Co-organizer of session “Functional Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy Technologies”, CMCEE15- (560 participants), American Ceramic Society, Canada
2015 Co-organizer of Workshop “Multifunctional Photonic Micro Devices” (70 participants), France
2014 Chair of Workshop “Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters” (30 participants), France
2012 Chair of Workshop “CVD-Diagnostique-Modélisation” (20 participants), France
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Since 2014 – Member, IEEE society
Since 2016 - Member of SPIE society & ex-member of American Ceramic Society (2015)
2014 – Member, National French Network GDR “Oxyfun”- Oxydes fonctionnels : du matériau au dispositif
2015 - Member, National French Network CMDO+ Cristaux, Micro-nano-structures et Dispositifs l’Optique