Aesthetic and Social Discourse Analysis

The team examines structures of meaning in aesthetic and social discourses from the semiotic, hermeneutic, social, and philosophical viewpoints.

Language usage, teaching and learning research group

The scientific work of the research group focuses on sociolinguistics and linguodidactics.

Lithuanian governmental and non– governmental organizations

The team develops studies of the Lithuanian governmental institutions.

Lithuanian literature and culture studies

The main group activities are transformations of the processes of literature and culture in Lithuania from the 16th century to the modern period.

Research group of Minorities‘ History and Culture studies

Socio-cultural research of ethnic, national and religious minority groups in the region (East and Central Europe, also including Russia).

Research in Formulaicity of Contemporary Languages

Research group focuses on different aspects of formulaic language: multiword expressions, phrases, collocations, lexical bundles and other recurrent units.

Research of Contemporary Perceptual Dialectology

The group focuses on strategies offered by perceptual dialectology, which allows the formation of the generalized image of the dialectal discourse and the identification of the perceptual isoglosses that mark the boundaries of the dialect continuum in the consciousness of the native speakers and appraisers.

Bacterial antibiotic resistance and pathogenesis

The group focuses on understanding of molecular basis underlying the antibiotic resistance in clinic and in the environment with the emphasis on novel resistance mechanisms, on pathogenesis of opportunistic gram-negative pathogens and on bacterial toxin-anti toxin systems. 

Biothermodynamics of small molecule interaction with target proteins for drug discovery

Group members are experts in compound library screening to discover compounds that interact / inhibit recombinant human drug target proteins.

Cell and tissue engineering research group

The group seek to develop the „hard“ and the „soft “ artificial tissues based on microstructured polymeric scaffolds and autologic adult stem cells.

Department of Bioanalysis

For more than twenty years this research team is focused on the investigation of biomolecules in electrochemical systems with the aim to create new biosensors and bioreactors.

Development of biocatalysts and biocatalytic systems

Research team focuses on the discovery and engineering of biocatalysts with properties for potential industrial application and development of efficient biocatalytic routs for producing the high-added value products from bio-based raw materials or industrial by-products.

Droplet microfluidics for high-throughput single-cell and single-molecule studies

Research team is using microfluidic droplets as a tool to analyze, profile and even selectively purify single-cells, sequence individual cells in clinical samples, screen antibody producing B-cells, perform digital DNA quantification, and many more biological and biomedical applications.

Global Optimization Group

The research group develops algorithms for global and multiobjective optimization and their parallel versions for highperformance computers, applies optimization to solve practical problems in engineering, science, business and medicine.

Laboratory of Microwave Spectroscopy (LMS)

The research focuses on the tunable multiferroic materials attractive for various kinds of sensors and/or actuators, carbon-based nanocoatings perspective for electromagnetic shielding applications and new kind of nanoelectronics, composites and hybrid organic-inorganic materials, which have the possibility to combine various physically different properties in the same material and even induce the coupling between them leading to various multifunctionalities.

Sustainability Assessment

The group focuses on the assessment of the impact of unequal income on the sustainable development of economy, sustainable energy and its connection with the aspects of climate change,sustainable development on the quality of life, the sustainable urban develop­ment, labour market, the implementation of gender equality, institutional change management, issues of sustainable energy and sustainable innovations.

Group of Amyloid Research

The group studies effects of environmental factors such as temperature, pressure, pH, prions, macromolecular crowding, and the presence of different organic solvents, ligands and biomolecules on aggre­gation kinetics, thermodynamic stability, and structural proper­ties of amyloid-like fibrils. We believe that only comprehensive knowledge of all factors may give genuine understanding of mechanisms of amyloid self-replications and thus proteinaceous infectivity.

Laboratory of Nucleic Acid Biochemistry

Group is actively engaged in research focused on two main directions: yeast dsRNA viruses: cloning, curing, reconstruction, evolution and ecology and nucleoside/nucleotide based antivirals for retroviruses.

Immunology and Cell Biology

Research team is focused on the development and characterization of mono­clonal and recombinant antibodies, immunogenicity studies of recombinant virus-like particles, antibody engineering and immu­nodiagnostics. 

Nature-Inspired Self-Assembled Systems and Applications Group

The grouop is focused on development of nature inspired models, in par­ticular, surface tethered phospholipid membranes (tBLM) and membrane-protein complexes exhibiting catalytic activities.

Production and research of recombinant viral and human proteins in yeast

The activities of the research group addresses studies related to efficient production of recombinant viral and human proteins in yeast cells by improvement of expression systems and yeast genetic background.

Synthesis of viral proteins for diagnostics

Analysis, synthesis of viral proteins in yeast and their practical application is the main research field of our group.

The group of polymers for bio- and nanotechnology

The group explores possibilities of reversible deactivation radical polymerization, click-chemistry and selective modification of polymers which allows the synthesis of amphiphilic multiblock brush copolymers, polyelectrolytes, targeted chitosan derivatives, poly(vinyl alcohol) based polyurethane microparticles and microcapsules, and polydimethylsiloxane modified elastomers. 

Charge Carriers Transport in Disordered Materials

The main goal of the laboratory is to expand usage of disordered organic and inorganic materials in electronics, for example  increasing stability and efficiency of organic solar cells or sensors for radiology.

Group of photoelectric phenomena Research

The group offers material and device characterization services in semiconductors of various technologies: Si, Ge, Si-Ge, GaAs, GaN, CdS, ZnSe, diamond, etc.; organic and polymeric materials (such as alanine, PEN); solar cells, LEDs, power PIN diodes and thyristors, particle detectors.

Knowledge based information systems engineering

The main scope of the research is to analyze User Requirements Specification documentation and design stage models generation process from enterprise model in IS development process by using knowledge-based subsystem.

Laboratory of Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition

This research group develops and optimises MOCVD process and equipment for the growth of films of transparent conductingoxides, mixed electronic-ionic conductors, coated conductors, dielectric, ferro-/piezo-electric, magnetoresistant, superconducting and other functional oxides with improved properties, including epitaxial multilayered heterostructures with new combined functionalities, for applications in micro-, opto-, acusto-electronics and other fields.

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy group

Group members are experts in  NMR spectroscopy of solids and liquids and EPR spectroscopy.

Technology of inorganic, organic and hybrid material layers

Research team is experienced in formation of inorganic, organic, hybrid and composite layers and structures from solid state, material solutions and gaseous state using vacuum thermal deposition, spin, coating, casting and CVD processes.

Education Systems Group

Computer Science Education Research Group conducts research in learning and teaching that involves educational practice in Computing and Engineering Education Research as well as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education

Semiconductor Photonics Group

The research group activities are focused on carrier dynamics and light emission efficiency, fast phenomena in intrinsic and doped scintillation materials and light emission properties of III-nitride nanorods.

Elementary Particle Physics Group

This research group's aim is better understanding of nature in its smallest parts and participates in the attempt to solve the riddles of nature.

Noise research and terahertz electronics laboratory

This research group has experience and focus efforts on the development of novel device concepts dedicated to the terahertz (THz) frequency range.

Research Group “Nanotechnas”

The research group is focused on development of non-invasive electrochemical and optical glucose biosensors for the detection of glucose body fluids; application of different glucose oxidases, various electron transfer mediators, gold nanoparticles of different size or gold nanostructured surfaces.

Molecular Vibrational Spectroscopy

The research group is focused on qualitative and quantitative spectral analysis of gases, solids, biological crystals and fluids; spectroscopic diagnostics of cancer cells; Raman and mid-infrared chemical imaging of surfaces and films and etc.

Theoretical Spectroscopy Group

The research group offers their knowledge and experience in designing spectroscopic measurements and interpreting their results and possess tools to characterize molecular excited states and underlying charge transfer processes.

Physics of Open Quantum Systems

The main objects of research group are typical model systems (spin-boson model, excitonic molecular aggregates described by Holstein model, multilevel quantum systems), photosynthetic molecular aggregates, and molecular-based photovoltaic prototypes.

Liquid Crystals Laboratory

The main job of the laboratory – working out of new processes, suitable for production and deep purification of target organic compounds.

Atomic Theory Group

The aim of this research group activities is to provide atomic, molecular, and solid-state data needed for various industrial areas, especially high-tech (including space and military industry) sectors. 

Research group of physical chemistry and electrochemistry

The research team is focused on synthesis of conducting polymers and evaluation of mechanisms of this synthesis, investigation and application of scanning electrochemical microscopy, development of biofuel cells.

Laboratory of Nanoionics

The group investigates solid state ionic materials by impedance spectroscopy.

Computational Quantum Chemistry Group

This research team is focused on analysis of ground and excited states of organic electronic systems, such as carotenoids and similar synthetic compounds containing allowed and forbidden electronic states, as well as studying Raman spectra of these systems. Dynamical characteristics of excited states and proton transfer ability by conjugated systems as well as electronic structure of graphene layers are also issues of interest.

Organic Optoelectronics

This research team are focused on the modification of the properties of multifunctional organic electronic materials, the fabrication of organic nanoparticles and their applications and the improvement of organic device technologies.

Functional inorganic materials

This research group is interested in materials, which are important in biomedicine, optoelectronics, conservation, restoration of cultural heritage and related industrial areas.

Wireless Networks Research Group

This research team is focused on  development of wireless technologies for 5G and beyond, working in the field of radio channel modelling and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Dynamical Processes Modelling Group

This research team is interested in modelling various dynamical processes in complex condensed phases and molecular systems.

Multiwavelength Raman spectroscopy group (MRSG)

This research team is interested in several themes related to the development of multiwavelength Raman spectroscopy and molecular level analysis of carbon materials, biomolecules, nanostructures.

Intelligent data mining, visualization and image processing

The aim of this scientific group research is to develop and investigate methods and techniques for intelligent data mining, visualization and image processing that allows solving complex problems of knowledge discovery in big data era.

Nitride epitaxial technology and device research group

The research group is focused on development of GaN photonic devices for sensor, non-linear optics, quantum technology applications, including optical circuits. Besides this group is interested in GaN nanostructures (nanodots, nanoneedles) technology with a focus on various applications in biosciences (selection, killing and labeling of the molecules, etc.).

Laser Nanophotonics Group

The group’s main research topic is direct laser writing (DLW) of 3D micro-nano-structures in transparent media and the applications of such functional structures in microoptics, photonics and tissue engineering.

Explorations of social gender manifestations in the society

The group focuses on manifestations and effects of social gen­der in different organizational, professional, economic (including different industries) and historical contexts.

Cultural industries and innovativeness

The group carries out research on creative industries and their influence on organizational and national competitiveness as well as individual, social and national identity and image making.

Business development

The research group is focused on innovation management, strategic organizational development, business environment, consumer behaviour, human resource management.

Accounting and finance problems and improving current practise

The research group is focused on financial accountability,  financial accounting theories and quality, the state and measurement of finance system and internal control in organizations, risk management in banks and etc.

Organizational ethics and social responsibility

The group focuses on techniques, instruments and processes that organizations employ to create ethical culture, foster em­ployee creativity and develop sustainable innovations, long-last­ing cross-sectoral partnerships and social entrepreneurship.

Political behaviour, subjectivity and contention

The main focus of our research group is political behaviour, polit­ical attitudes and subjectivity with specific interest in communist and post-communist legacies.

Intelligent systems and knowledge based applications

This research group is interested in developing new quantitative evaluation indicators and intelligent models, designing the advertising scenarios for E-shops surfers, evaluating the influence of market news, generated in various media and social information sources and etc.

Vilnius University Trauma research group

This research team is focused on development and validation of trauma exposure measures; epidemiological studies, psychological assessment measures and risk and protective factors for stress-related disorders; research of social risk groups and eHealth interventions.

Biophotonics Group

The group’s scientific interests cover interdisciplinary research field.The group’s scientific interests cover interdisciplinary research fieldaiming to create and develop new methods and technologiessuitable for early diagnostics and combined treatment of cancerousand rheumatic diseases.

Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics Group

Long term or project based collaboration with academia andindustry towards development of new ultrabroaband light sources.

Laser Matter Interaction Group

Long term or project based collaboration with academia and industrytowards development of ultrafast laser machining and advanced nonlinear applications.

Strategies in Antimicrobial Therapy, Protein Engineering and Application in Biotechnology

Our team intensively works on two strong research areas.Our first task is biocontrol of human pathogenic microorganisms.Another research area of ours is development and improvement of new different biocatalysts by protein engineering methods.

Photophysical Properties of Organic Materials

Our research group seeks to improve the sensitivity of the detection of electrons emitted by ultraviolet radiation, by utilising a slow photoelectron-counting cell and expanding the spectral range of measurements to 180 nm.

Computational structural biology and bioinformatics

Our laboratory carries out research projects covering a broad range of topics that can be collectively described as computational studies of protein structure, function and evolution.