Team

DONATAS BURNEIKA
CHIEF RESEARCHER

ORCID
Research gate

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
Regional and urban studies; regional development and regional policy; social and economic geography; migration, socio-spatial (socio-territorial segregation, suburbanization, peripheralization and metropolisation studies).

CONTACTS:
Phone: (+370 5) 211 3777
E-mail: donatas.geo@gmail.com


EDIS KRIAUČIŪNAS
SENIOR RESEARCHER

ORCID
Research gate

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
Rural development; the transformation of rural areas; socio-demographic differentiation of rural spaces; development of accommodation services in rural areas; geography of settlements; regional geography; tourism geography.

CONTACTS:
Phone: (+370 5) 211 3777
E-mail: edis.geo@gmail.com


Rūta UBAREVIČIENĖ
sENIOR RESEARCHER

ORCID
Research gate

SCIENTIFICT INTERESTS:
Socio-spatial change, depopulation, internal migration, regional inequalities, social segregation, urban regions, post-socialist development, Big Data.

CONTACTS:
Phone: (+370 5) 211 3777
E-mail: ruta.ubareviciene@gmail.com


Gintarė POCIŪTĖ SEREIKIENĖ
SENIOR RESEARCHER

ORCID
Research gate

SCIENTIFIC INTEREST:
Spatial polarization, peripheries and peripherality, urban shrinkage, gated communities, gentrification and segregation in the cities.

CONTACTS:
Phone: (+370 5) 211 3777
E-mail: gintarei.pociutei@gmail.com


Darius LIUTIKAS
sENIOR RESEARCHER

ORCID

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
Tourism, sociology of tourism, sociology of leisure, cultural and religious tourism, pilgrimage, geography of tourism.

CONTACTS:
Phone: (+370 5) 210 2071
E-mail: darius.liutikas@gmail.com


Viktorija BARANAUSKIENĖ
Researcher

ORCID
Research gate

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
Geography of the population, sparsely populated areas of Lithuania, socio-spatial exclusion, change of network of public service infrastructure, peripheralization and metropolisation studies,  regional policy, regional differences.

CONTACTS:
Phone: (+370 5) 211 3777
E-mail: baranauskiene.viktorija@gmail.com


Simona ŠČERBINSKAITĖ
JUNIOR RESEARCHER

ORCID
Research gate

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
Development and transformation of rural areas, socio-demographic aspects; rural community organizations and activities; rural development policy.

CONTACTS:
Phone: (+370 5) 211 3777
E-mail: simonascerbinskaite@gmail.com


Vaida TRETJAKOVA
RESEARCHER

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
Sociology of families and intimate lives; (adolescent) fertility; childlessness; reproductive health; youth wellbeing; gender roles, relations and inequalities; sexuality education, reproductive health, fertility policies.

CONTACTS:
Phone: (+370 5) 211 3777
E-mail: vaida.tretjakova@gmail.com


Dovydas VIDZBELIS
JUNIOR RESEARCHER, pHd STUDENT

ORCID
Research gate

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
Political field; elections; electoral system; voting behavior; local influence on political attitude; statistical portrait of political campaign participants; social geography.

CONTACTS:
Phone: (+370 5) 211 3777
E-mail: dovydas.vidzbelis@lcss.lt