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Principal Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
Tomas Baležentis
Areas of interest: Agricultural economics, energy economics, multi-criteria decision-making, quantitative methods in social sciences, efficiency and productivity analysis.
Principal Researcher
Department of Sustainable Food Systems
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Areas of interest: Agricultural policy and economics; applied microeconomics; environmental economics.
Principal Researcher
Department of Business Ecosystems
Rasa Melnikiene
Areas of interest: Agriculture and rural policy, sustainable development, innovation policy, business performance evaluation.
Principal Researcher
Department of Sustainable Food Systems
Areas of interest: Financial engineering, green finance, circular economy, Fintech, value creation, decision-making under uncertainty, multi-criteria decision-making methods, economic modeling, knowledge and technology transfer, higher education management.
Principal Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
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Areas of interest: Sustainable development of energy and agriculture, climate change mitigation policies and measures in energy and agriculture, policies and measures to promote renewable energy sources, sustainability assessment of policies and measures.
Principal Researcher
Department of Business Ecosystems
Areas of interest: Evolutionary approach; paradigm innovations; strategic management; business models; rural and regional development policy; servitization; theory of qualitative structures.
Senior Researcher
Department of Sustainable Food Systems
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Areas of interest: Economics, agricultural economics, environmental economics, mathematical modeling, forecasting.
Senior Researcher
Department of Business Ecosystems
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Areas of interest: sustainable regional and rural development, servitization; business models; circular economy; innovation ecosystems.
Senior Researcher
Department of Sustainable Food Systems
Areas of interest: General agricultural policy, agricultural viability, structural changes in agriculture, price changes, circular economy.
Senior Researcher
Department of Business Ecosystems
Rita Lankauskienė
Areas of interest: Sustainable regional and rural development, innovative business models, networking, circular bio-economy, smart specialisation, social responsibility, social innovation.
Senior Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
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Senior Researcher
Department of Sustainable Food Systems
Areas of interest: Applied microeconomics, environmental economics, economic analysis of agricultural policy measures.
Senior Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
Areas of interest: Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Risk, Food Security, Price Analysis, Trade Policy Analysis
Senior Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
Areas of interest: Macroeconomics, Markets, FinTech management
Areas of interest: Sustainable development, mergers and acquisitions, corporate economics, agricultural competitiveness, international economics, resource and environmental economics, regional economics and politics.
Senior Researcher
Department of Sustainable Food Systems
Virgilijus Skulskis
Areas of interest: Common agricultural policy, Organic agriculture, Organic products, Innovations, Commercialization of R&D results
Senior Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
Areas of interest: sustainable energy development, sustainability assessment, energy policy, climate change, multi-criteria decision-making
Senior Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
Researcher
Department of Sustainable Food Systems
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Areas of interest: Sustainability and competitiveness of agriculture.
Areas of interest: Sustainable regional and rural development, interest groups, social movements, agricultural knowledge and innovation systems.
Senior Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
Artiom Volkov
Areas of interest: Sustainability and sustainable development of the agricultural sector, economic resilience of the agricultural sector, general agricultural policy, multi-criteria assessment.
Senior Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
Justas Štreimikis
Areas of interest: Sustainable development, agricultural efficiency, international economics, resource and environmental economics, regional economics and politics.
Junior researcher
Department of Sustainable Food Systems
Areas of interest: Sustainable agricultural development, bioeconomy, consumer behavior.
Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
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Areas of interest: Innovation projects, agricultural finance.
Science manager
Department of Sustainable Food Systems
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Areas of interest: dairy economy, food price chains, food supply chains, circularity in agriculture and food industry.
Researcher, PhD student
Department of Business Ecosystems
Erika Ribašauskienė
Areas of interest: Research on networking and cooperation (local action groups, cooperation), rural development and regional policy, modeling and evaluation of European Union support, demography and social inclusion of rural residents, research on food losses and sustainable consumption.
Junior researcher
Department of Sustainable Food Systems
Areas of interest: Agricultural economics, farmers behaviour, agricultural markets analysis and monitoring, agri-industrial chains analysis.
Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
Vaida Šapolaitė
Areas of interest: Total added value; income received by agricultural entities from agriculture and additional activities.
Researcher, PhD student
Department of Resource Economics
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Areas of interest: EU CAP, direct payments; Modelling of support measures for agriculture; Resilience of agriculture; Economic behavior of farmers.
Principal Researcher
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Principal Researcher
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Associate Researcher
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Senior Researcher
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Areas of interest: Materials engineering, innovation management, process management
Senior Researcher
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Areas of interest: Materials engineering, innovation management, process management
Senior Researcher
Project activities group
Areas of interest: Materials engineering, innovation management, process management
Senior Researcher
Project activities group
Areas of interest: Materials engineering, innovation management, process management
Senior Researcher
Department of Resource Economics
Areas of interest: Socialinė ir ekonominė nelygybė