Invited speakers

Professor, Habilitate Doctor of Vilnius University (Lithuania), head of the Department of General and Inorganic Chemistry of Vilnius University and starting from 2016, he is Director of Institute of Chemistry of Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, and the leader of the Sol-Gel Chemistry group.

The main research fields of prof. A. Kareiva are Inorganic, Solid State, Materials and Analytical Chemistry. The current research interest - Sol-gel synthesis and analytical characterization of multicomponent metal oxide systems.

Prof. A. Kareiva is author of several books and during last five years, he has published more than 120 scientific papers, and besides educational and administrative activities, prof. A. Kareiva has been giving lectures and research courses in a large number of universities around the world.

Professor, Doctor of Biopolymers and Advanced Materials Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey).

He completed his Ph.D.thesis on nanocomposite preperation via Atom Transfer Radicallic Polymerisation at Aegean University, Turkey. He worked as Post.Doc in Istanbul Techinal University (Turkey) about Photopolymerisation and University of Akron (USA) about preparation of nanocomposites by using different methods and enzynmatic reactions. The main research fields of prof. A. Oral are polymer chemistry, nanochemistry, different materials in chemistry with the expertize in nanofibers, nanocomposite, biopolymer materials for different applications such as drug release, wound healing, and bio-scaffolds.

Prof. A. Oral is board member of the Chemist Society (Turkey) and the founder of the Joint Science Congress of Material and Polimers and the member of Chemists Society of Turkey.

Professor, Habilitate Doctor of Vilnius University (Lithuania), Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Physical Chemistry, head of the Research group of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry.

He has research interests in various aspects of nanotechnology, bionanotechnology, nanomaterial, biosensorics, bioelectronics, biofuel cells and Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) based analytical devices. He is a national coordinator of several nanotechnology related COST actions.

Prof. A. Ramanavicius is author of over 100 research papers in journals referred in ISI database, some patents, research projects related to electrochemistry; over 2800 independent citations.

Professor, Doctor of Tartu University (Estonia), chair of the Analytical Chemistry of the Institute of Chemistry.

During his research career and especially during the last ten years Ivo has been engaged in a wide variety of topics ranging from acidity-basicity and catalysis issues to mass spectrometry and from chemical metrology to developing sensors.

Prof. I. Leito is a very active and successful scientist, educator, leader of his research group. He is the programme director two international master-level study programmes that have been launched under his leadership.

Dr. Irina Shtangeeva is senior researcher at St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Her main scientific interests are biogeochemistry of trace and ultratrace elements, phytoremediation of contaminated soils and multivariate statistical analysis.

Recently Dr. Shtangeeva paid main attention to short-term variations in concentrations of macro- and trace elements in plants and rhizosphere soil that are due to circadian rhythmic changes and effects of interrelations between root exudates of different plant species on uptake of elements. She published more than 50 indexed publications, three books, two chapters book.

Markéta Holá received her PhD in chemistry from the Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic in 2004. Then she continues her carrier as a researcher and specialist in the field of Laser Ablation with Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) at the group of prof. Viktor Kanický at Masaryk University. 2014 - 2018 she worked in the research group of Synthesis and Analysis of Nanostructures in Central-European Technology Institute, Brno. From 2019 she works at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Masaryk University. Her current research interests are mainly focused on the study of laser-sample interaction processes, study of laser generated aerosol, trace analysis of geological materials and imaging methods.

Doctor of physics, professor of Jožef Stefan Institute and Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).

Prof. M. Remškar has devoted her research to the following research directions - one and two-dimensional crystals, inorganic nanotubes, charge density waves, self-assembly of nanoparticles and lately she is involved in the development of materials for respiratory masks as well as in the research of nanoparticles released by fireworks and hair dryers.

Maja Remškar has been published around hundred scientific papers; she is author of several patents, and co-founder and director of a high technological spin-off company.

Dr. Juris Burlakovs has a doctoral degree in geography achieved at University of Latvia in 2015, his track record in research and applied engineering is towed to Environmental engineering, waste management and geochemistry. He is post-doctoral trainee at University of Latvia and his topic is related to sustainable closure of landfills using circular economy principles and innovative approaches. His Hirsch index is 11, his favourites in science are geology and geochemistry and clay science.