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Dr. Gintarė Šidlauskaitė

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E-mail:
gintare.sidlauskaite@lammc.lt
Instituto al. 1, Akademija, LT-58343 Kėdainiai dist., Lithuania

 

Education 

2018–2022 Doctoral studies in Natural Sciences, Ecology and Environmental Science, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry. 

2015–2017 Master degree studies in Applied Ecology, Aleksandras Stulginskis University (since 2019 Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy).

2011–2015 Bachelor degree studies in Environmental Sciences and Ecology, Vytautas Magnus University.

Academic degree

2022 Doctor of Natural Sciences (Ecology and Environmental Science), dissertation “Legumes and grasses interspecies compatibility for perennial swards productivity and for sustainability of the agroecosystem functions”.

Research fields

  • Ecology and environmental science, agroecology
  • Plant nutrition and management
  • Multifunctional short-term swards
  • Productivity of different species and varieties of legume and grasses in Lithuania
  • Possibilities of reducing mineral nitrogen fertilisers in swards

Position

Since 2022 Researcher, Department of Plant Nutrition and Agroecology, Institute of Agriculture, LAMMC

Memberships and affiliations with professional organisations

  • Member of the Lithuanian Society of Grassland

Involvement in programmes and projects

International

  • 2025–2028 m. Programme AGROECOLOGY project “Agroecological Transition of the European Dairy Farming System” (TEDY), coordinator at the Institute of Agriculture.
  • 2023–2025 Programme HORIZON EUROPE project “The NUTRI-CHECK NETwork to maximise site-specific precision in managing the nutrition of European arable crops” (NUTRICHECK-NET), implementer.
  • 2022–2024 Programme HORIZON 2020 project “Are mixed species systems fostering belowground C inputs and C sequestration?” (MIXROOT-C), implementer.
  • 2022–2024 Project LegacyNet (A voluntary network of experimental sites across Europe established to investigate the benefits of multi-species grasslands for yield and their effects on subsequent crops in rotation), implementer.

National

  • 2025–2026 “RTO Lithuania” project “Modeling microplastic transport in plants using microfluidic systems” (PLASTRO), supervisor.
  • 2025 m. European Union NextGenerationEU project “Development of a reciprocity-based international cooperation strategy for the Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry” (No. 10-038-T-0017), implementer.
  • 2024–2026 LMT postdoctoral fellowship project “Sustainable productivity of different types of grasslands under climate extremes and fertilization” (ID: S-PD-24-171), implementer.
  • 2024–2025 European Union NextGenerationEU project “Preparation of a high quality MSCA postdoctoral fellowship proposal” (No. 10-038-T-0068), supervisor.
  • 2024–2025 European Union NextGenerationEU project “Competence development for preparing international proposals in the field of biodiversity and ecosystem services research” (No. 10-038-T-0059), implementer.
  • 2021–2023 Contracted project “Development of technologies for growing productive and nutritious grasslands fertilised with organic and mineral fertilisers”, implementer.
  • 2020–2021 National high-level R&D (SMART) project of the Lithuanian Research Council “Enhancement of the multifunctional properties of legumes in feed and food value chains” (SmartLegume), implementer.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (click the link here)

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