Dr. Egidijus Rimkus
Professor
Links to External Profile
Project and/or Grant leadership
Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation and Ministry of Agriculture “Modeling of climate and agricultural productivity change in Lithuania (ARUODAS)” (project leader). 2007
INTERREG IV B Baltic Sea Region programme “Baltic Challenges and Chances for Local and Regional Development Generated by Climate Change (BalticClimate)”. 2008-2011 (project leader in VU).
Lithuanian-Swiss Cooperation Programme „Climate change in peatlands: Holocene record, recent trends and related impacts on biodiversity and sequestered carbon (CLIMPEAT)“. 2013-2016 (project leader in VU).
Ministry of Agriculture “Definition of extreme meteorological event “Long rainy period”. 2018 (project leader).
Ministry of Agriculture “Development of the most suitable methodology for definition of droughts in Lithuania”. 2019 (project leader).
Scientific foundation of Vilnius University. “Use of Sentinel-1 SAR polarimetry to determine snow and ice cover characteristics”. 2019-2022.
Supervision of Doctoral Students and/or Postdoc Students
Supervisor of 7 PhD students and one postdoc
Teaching Courses
Fundamentals of meteorology
Climate change
Mathematical Statistical Methods in Natural sciences
Climate change geopolitics
Climate and Ecosystems changes
Participation in the national/international governing bodies, commissions, committees, boards etc.
Leader of the working group of the Center for Strategic Analysis of the Government. Responsible for the creation of the State Progress Strategy "Lithuania 2050" in the fields of environmental and climate protection (2022-2023).
Member of the inter-institutional working group to combat the effects of climate change on public health (from 2021).
Member of the Climate Change Panel of the National Forest Agreement (2021).
Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of the Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service (from 2021)