Andrius Pakalniškis
Junior assistant
Scientific Interests, Keywords
X-ray diffraction, Piezoelectricity, Ferroelectricity, Magnetism, Sol-Gel, Perovskite, Multiferroicity
Project and/or Grant leadership
National student project “Europiu legiruotų gadolinio fosfato nanodalelių dydžio kontrolė hidroterminiu metodu” Nr. [09.3.3-LMT-K-712-09-0166] funded by the Lithuanian science council.
Responsibilities - researcher.
National student project “Lantanoidais legiruoto gadolinio fosfato sintezė ir liuminescencinių savybių tyrimas” Nr. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-16-0290] funded by the Lithuanian science council.
Responsibilities - researcher.
National project „NEGEMAT” (No. S-MIP-19-59) funded by the Lithuanian science council.
Responsibilities - researcher.
International project “TransFerr” funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 778070.
Responsibilities - researcher.
Invited Talks
Andrius Pakalniškis, Aivaras Kareiva, Gediminas Niaura, Dmitry Karpinsky, Siarhei Latushka, Ramūnas Skaudžius “PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BISMUTH FERRITE - BARIUM TITANATE SOLID SOLUTION CERAMICS” Open readings 2019: 62nd international conference for students of physics and natural sciences. Lithuania, Vilnius, March 19 – 22nd, 2019.
Andrius Pakalniškis, Aivaras Kareiva, Gediminas Niaura, Dmitry Karpinsky, Siarhei Latushka, Ramūnas Skaudžius “BISMUTH FERRITE - BARIUM TITANATE SOLID SOLUTION SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION” National Scientific Students Conference Chemistry and Chemical Technology 2019. Lithuania, Vilnius, May 17th, 2019.
Andrius Pakalniškis, Ramūnas Skaudžius, Dmitry Karpinsky, Gediminas Niaura, Aivaras Kareiva “In-depth Structural Investigation of Samarium-Doped Bismuth Ferrite Across its Phase Boundary” 2021 IEEE 11th International Conference on “Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties” Ukraine, Odesa, September 5 – 11th, 2021.
Andrius Pakalniškis, Ramūnas Skaudžius, Dmitry Karpinsky, Gediminas Niaura, Aivaras Kareiva “INVESTIGATION OF HIGH-PRESSURE EFFECTS ON STRUCTURAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF MULTIFERROIC Sm DOPED BiFeO3”, “Open readings 2022: 65th international conference for students of physics and natural sciences” Lithuania, Vilnius, March 15 – 18th, 2022.
Andrius Pakalniškis, Ramūnas Skaudžius, Dmitry Karpinsky, Gediminas Niaura, Aivaras Kareiva, “High-Pressure effects on Sm doped BiFeO3”, Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials: NANO-2022: NANO conference, Ukraine, Lviv, August 25-27th, 2022.
Andrius Pakalniškis, Ramūnas Skaudžius, Gediminas Niaura, Dmitry Karpinsky, Aivaras Kareiva ”Stabilization of Hexagonal Crystal Structure in the Orthorhombic LuFeO3 Matrix”, the international conference ”FUNCTIONAL INORGANIC MATERIALS 2022“, Lithuania, Vilnius, October 6th-8th, 2022.
Participation in the national/international governing bodies, commissions, committees, boards etc.
Member of the Lithuanian chemical society.
Awards
In 2021 an award was received from The Lithuanian Academy of Sciences for the best scientific work of Lithuanian University students during the period of 2020 entitled “INVESTIGATION INTO DOPANT INDUCED PHASE TRANSITIONS IN SOL-GEL DERIVED BISMUTH FERRITE BASED SOLID SOLUTIONS”.
In 2022 a grant by the Research Council of Lithuania for scientific achievements as a Ph.D. student during the period from October 2020 to December 2021.
Laboratory training grant for scientific training exchange in National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan during the period from 2022 April to 2022 August.
Travel grant by the Utrecht Network Young Researchers for scientific exchange to the University of Strasbourg during October 2022.
Travel grant by the Research Council of Lithuania for scientific exchange to the University of Strasbourg during November 2022.
Science popularization
In 2018 chemistry exercises were prepared and evaluated for national Lithuanian nature science as well as for the national selection process for the International junior science Olympiads.
In 2020 chemistry exercises for the Lithuanian nature science Olympiad which was held online were also evaluated.
In 2021 Chemistry exercises were prepared and evaluated for the NordPlus Olympiad.
From September 2019 to 2020 August, I lead laboratory exercises for school-age kids from grades 4 to 12 in the Vilnius University Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences.
Participated in organizing four scientific conferences “ECOBALT 2018”, “OXYGENALIA 2018”, “NBCM 202” and “FIM 2022”.