Prof. Dr. Ričardas Makuška
Phone: +370 5219 3227
Professor
Scientific Interests, Keywords
Polymer synthesis and modification.
Brush polymers.
Polymers for nano- and biotechnologies.
Plastics, elastomers, composites, polymer coatings.
Polymer processing, recycling and utilization.
Polymers from renewable resources.
Biofuels.
Project and/or Grant leadership
Project leadership:
3 Scientists group projects financed by Lithuanian Research Council (2010-2011; 2012-2014; 2015-2018).
Project “Innovative anticorrosion coatings for industrial and transport applications” financed by EU Investment funds tool “Intelektas” (2018-2021).
Project “Polyaspartic coatings without volatile organic compounds for wooden surfaces” financed by EU Investment funds tool “Eksperimentas” (2021-2023).
Invited Talks
Baltic Polymer Symposium, Ventspils, Latvia. 2009.
Int. Conference on Natural Polymers, Kottayam, India, 2010.
Ukrainian Polymer Conference, Kyiv, 2010.
Int. Conference “Advanced Materials and Technologies”, Palanga, 2011.
Baltic Polymer Symposium, Sigulda, Latvia. 2015.
Supervision of Doctoral Students and/or Postdoc Students
Former PhD students:
A. Ūsaitis (1991), V. Pamedytytė (1993), J. Juodaitytė (1999), N. Gorochovceva (2005), D. Ragauskienė (2007), U. Jančiauskaitė (2008), T. Krivorotova (2010), R. Gruškienė (2010), I. Vitkauskienė (2011), J. Jonikaitė-Švėgždienė (2017), V. Klimkevičius (2017), P. Radzevičius (2018), M. Steponavičiūtė (2020).
Postdoc students:
A. Tereshchenko, Moscow (2007)
A. Tolstov, Kyiv (2008)
Teaching Courses
Chemical Technology .
Characterization of Polymers.
Mechanisms of Polymerization Reactions.
Polymers in Restoration Technologies.
Participation in the national/international governing bodies, commissions, committees, boards etc.
Vilnius University Senate member (2022-2006 and 2010-2014), Chairman of the Science committee of Vilnius University (2010-2014), Deputy-chairman of the Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences Board of Vilnius University (since 2017).
Expertise
Expert of:
Horizon 2020;
Research Council of Lithuania;
Agency of Science, Innovation and Technology.
Science popularization
On an average 1 lecture for pupils/teachers per year and 1 participation in TV show on scientific activities.