Dr. Petras Šinkūnas
Phone: +370 5 239 8272
Professor
Links to External Profile
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7198-0689
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petras-Sinkunas
Project and/or Grant leadership
2010-2011 Development of Paleogeographical conditions in Lithuania during the postglacial interaction of the Baltic Sea and land. Within the frame of the National Research Program (NRP) “Ecosystems in Lithuania: climate change and human impact”.
2010-2012 EU Youth in Action Project “Geopark: Geosciences – GeoTourism – Environmental Protection”, Lithuanian part coordinator.
2010-2011 Palaeogeographical changes in Lithuania throughout the Postglacial time under the Baltic Sea and land interaction (POLEDYNMETIS LIETUVOJE); supported by Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation.
2005-2009 UNESCO/IGCP 518 Fluvial sequences as evidence for landscape and climatic evolution in the Late Cenozoic; supported by Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation.
2002-2005 UNESCO/IGCP 449 Global Correlation of Late Cenozoic Fluvial Deposits; supported by Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation.
Supervision of Doctoral Students and/or Postdoc Students
Miglė Paškevičiūtė 2022
Gintarė Martinkutė 2022
Tomas Aidukas 2022
Audrius Indriulionis 2019
Maksim Bogdasarov 2016
Jurgita Paškauskaitė 2015
Vaiva Barzdžiuvienė 2006
Teaching Courses
Glacial geology
Sedimentary petrology
Sedimentology
Practice Geological mapping and geophysics
Supervision of Students' Thesis
Markas Kazlauskas 2022
Agnė Žilinskaitė 2021
Miglė Paškevičiūtė 2020
Tomas Aidukas 2018
Simona Kelečiūtė 2017
Karolina Strakovska 2016
Ingrida Bakanaitė 2015
Monika Valiūtė 2015
Participation in the national/international governing bodies, commissions, committees, boards etc.
2004-2020 Chairman of Lithuanian National Committee of Geologists (IUGS).
2001-2018 Chairman of the Lithuanian National INQUA Committee.
2014-2018 – Chair of Geology PhD Study Committee.
Expertise
Expertise for the National Science Centre of Poland.
Expertise for Latvian Science Council of Latvia.
Science popularization
Lectures in Qualification improvement seminars "Geology and natural science education". 218, 2019, 2021, 2022.
Interviews in newspaper 15min.lt, 2021.
Lecture "Glaciers - sculptors of the earth's surface" Conference for the public “Be a friend of the earth!” 2021.
Lecture "What glaciers create" for vacationers and members of the rural community at the Puvočiai recreation and practice base. 2021.
Interview in the News section of the VU page "Teachers propose to change secondary education programs". 2018.