Dovilė Motiejauskaitė

ORCiD iD: 0000-0001-7332-2703

E-mail: dovile.motiejauskaite@lammc.lt

Address: Studentų St. 15A, Akademija, Kaunas dist., Lithuania

Education

Since 2025 PhD studies in Agricultural Sciences (Agronomy), Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, dissertation topic “Studies on the migration of microplastics from sewage sludge to deeper soil layers”.

2023–2025 Master’s studies in Applied Biotechnology, Vytautas Magnus University.

2020–2022 Minor studies in Biology and Genetics, Vytautas Magnus University.

2018–2022 Bachelor’s studies in Food Quality and Safety, Vytautas Magnus University.

Research field

• Microplastic pollution, its interaction with environmental components and impact on agroecosystems

Position 

Since 2025 PhD student, Junior Researcher at the Agrobiology Laboratory, Institute of Agriculture, LAMMC

Memberships and affiliations with professional organisations

• Lithuanian Society of Young Researchers, member 

Involvement in programmes and projects

International projects

• 2024–2027 INTERREG programme project “Innovative solutions for sewage sludge management in small wastewater treatment plants”, junior researcher.
• 2025 European Inventor Network educational project “Workshop on Microplastics”, participant and organiser.

National projects

• 2024–2025 Research Council of Lithuania funded research internship “Application of fluorescence microscopy to the characterization of microplastics” (No. P-ST-24-53).
• 2023–2024 Research Council of Lithuania funded research internship “Isolation and characterization of microplastics from sewage sludge” (No. P-ST-23-209).

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (click the link)