Dr. Edvinas Orentas
Phone: +3705219 3192
Professor
Scientific Interests, Keywords
Organic Chemistry, Photochemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Surface Chemistry
Links to External Profile
Project and/or Grant leadership
1. (2022-2025) “Molecular Chirality: New Approaches and Applications” (Research Council of Lithuania, Grant P-MIP-22-104, budget 149936 Eur).
2. (2017-2020) “New entries into the chemistry of organic free- radicals (GoRadical)” (Research Council of Lithuania, Grant S-MIP-17-46, budget 99956 Eur).
3. (2013-2015) “Two channel photosystem based on tubular supramolecular polymer” (Project No. VP1- 3.1-ŠMM-07-K-03-007, European Social Fund under the Human Resources Development Action Program “Support for scientific research by scientists and other researchers (Global Grant), budget 999 129 Lt)).
4. (2019-2022) Concert Japan project "Supraporous" (budget 125 000 Eur).
5. (2018-2022) “Triplet State Engineering in Organic Optoelectronics Compounds” (No. 09.3.3-LMT-K-712-01-0084, European Social Fund under the Human Resources Development Action Program “Support for scientific research by scientists and other researchers (Global Grant)).
6. (2019-2023) “Nanoscale probing and activation of surface-initiated polymerization (PROACTIVE)” (Research Council of Lithuania, Grant S-MIP-19-279).
7. (2021-2022). “Molecular synthesis and primary screening assay platform R&D for anti-COVID drug discovery and pre-clinical research” (Nr. 01.2.1- LVPA-T-858-01-0046, European Regional Development Fund, budget 991 433 Eur)
Invited Talks
2022 University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2021 University of Zurich, Switzerland
2021 Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
2018 European Colloquium on Heterocyclic Chemistry, Lecce, Italy
2016 University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2016 Trends in Organic Chemistry: Self-Assembly, Lund University, Sweden
2016 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
2015 Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 Balticum Organicum Syntheticum (BOS), Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 7th EuCheMS Organic Division Young Investigators Conference, Aveiro, Portugal
2013 Organisk Kjemiske Vintermøte, Skeikampen, Norway
Supervision of Doctoral Students and/or Postdoc Students
Augustina Jozeliūnaitė, PhD (2022)
Vytautas Klimavičius, Postdoc (2021-2022)
Tomas Javorskis, PhD (2018)
Dovilė Račkauskaitė, PhD, (2016)
Teaching Courses
Organic Chemistry I-II
Stereochemistry of Biomolecules
Selected Topics in Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry
Mechanisms of Organic Reactions
Supramolecular Chemistry
Participation in the national/international governing bodies, commissions, committees, boards etc.
Chair of the Study Program Committee (Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
Lithuanian Representative at European Chemical Society, Organic Chemistry Division
Chair/member of PhD Thesis Defence Committees
Chair/Member of the Organizing Committee of Balticum Organicum Syntheticum conference
Member of the working group for LITHUANIAN ROADMAP FOR RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES