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Date and place of birth: December 28, 1953, Kaunas, Lithuania

Place of work: Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Informatics, Head of Dept. Applied Informatics, Professor

Graduation: Kaunas Polytechnic Institute, 1976, Applied Mathematics

Titles: Professor (1993), PhD Habill. (technology sciences, 1993), Assoc. Professor (1992), senior research assistant (1981), PhD (engineering sciences, 1981)

Membership: True member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (Section of Engineering Sciences, 2019)

Thesis

• PhD Habill.: Analysis and Synthesis of Elastic Structures with Unilateral Constraints: Computer Methods and Applications in Controlled Vibration Systems (1993)
• PhD: Finite Element Analysis of Impact Interaction Vibromotors (1981m)

Work activity

• 1976–1979: KPI Laboratory of electronic computers, research assistant
• 1979–1986: KPI research centre "Vibrotechnika", post-graduate student, since 1981 senior research assistant
• 1986–1993: KTU Dept. Theoretical Mechanics, Assoc. Professor
• 1993–2002: KTU Dept. Engineering Mechanics, Professor, since 1995m Head of Department
• 2002–2013: KTU Dept. System Analysis, Head of Department
• Since 2013: KTU Dept. Applied Informatics, Head of Department

Rewards

• 1996: Lithuanian National scientific award for research work cycle “Vibro_impact systems: analysis, optimization, application (co-Author V.Ostaševičius).
• 2009m. Lithuanian National scientific award for the textbook „Finite Element Fundamentals“ and research work cycle“ Finite Element Method: computational methods and applications (co-Authors R.Belevičius, R.Kačianauskas).

Internships

• 1985–1986: research internship at Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany
• 1996: Quality Control Course in the scope of scientific cooperation program "Lithuanian Metal Control Laboratory"
• 1996: Course of anti-seismic design at Electric Energy Information Centre of Japan (JEPIC)
• 2000: TATENA Regional seminar “Evaluation of Non-Destructive Control Results for Determining the residual Resource, Brno,Chech
• 2001: research internship at University of Linkooping, Sweden

Research directions

Computational models and software for physical behavior simulation of systems and structures:

• analysis, synthesis and control of vibrating systems with unilateral constraints;
• modelling and simulation of short waves in elastic, acoustic and flowing fluid environments;
• modelling and simulation of composite textile structures ballistic interaction and failure;
• Computational models of biomedicine and biomechanics; etc.

Publications

~250 research articles, 6 monographs, 7 textbooks

Post-graduates

8 post-graduate students defended PhD theses

Teaching

• Numerical Methods and Algorithms P170B115
• Physically Based Animations P170B118
• Models and Algorithms of Physical Behavior P170M102
• Approximation and Visualization of 3D Objects P170M103
• Mathematical Models in Informatics P170D101
• Finite Element Method T210M009
• Numerical Methods in Engineering T210D439
• Mechanical Vibration T210M439

Experience in using software

FORTRAN, C, Java, MATLAB, ANSYS, CFX, LS-DYNA, COMSOL Multiphysics

Foreign languages

English, Russian, German