Academic and professional experience
- Obtained Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in History and a PhD in Humanities at Vilnius University. Research interests include the political and social history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (13th–16th centuries) and late medieval Europe.
- Studied and completed research fellowships at the Universities of Basel, the Free University of Berlin, Greifswald, and Kraków, as well as at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw and the Herder Institute in Marburg.
- Full Member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.
- President of the Lithuanian University Rectors’ Conference (2022–2023).
- Member of the International Historical Commission for Research on the Teutonic Order.
- Dean of the Faculty of History at Vilnius University (2012–2020).
- Chair of the Board of the Research Council of Lithuania (2018–2020).
- Chair of the Implementation Group of the National Programme for the Development of Lituanistics (2009–2015).
- Member of the editorial boards of various international academic journals.
Awards
Rector’s Awards of Vilnius University for Excellence in Research and Teaching (2003, 2009, 2019).
Lithuanian National Prize for Science (2019).
Knight's Cross of the Order of Gediminas (2018)
Knight's Cross of the Order of the Republic of Poland (2019)
Benedict the Pole Prize of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland (2023).
Ordre des Palmes académiques, a National Order of the French Republic (2025).
Contact
Assistant
Gabriela Boroško
Universiteto g. 3, Room 231
LT-01513 Vilnius
Email: gabriela.barosko@cr.vu.lt
Phone: +370 526 87 010
Head of office (for visits)
Ieva Kristinaitytė
Universiteto g. 3, Room 234
LT-01513 Vilnius
Email: ieva.kristinaityte@cr.vu.lt
Phone: +370 526 87 009
For media
Liudmila Januškevičienė
Universiteto g. 3, Room 140
LT-01513 Vilnius
Email: liudmila.januskeviciene@cr.vu.lt
Phone: +370 601 17 080