Professional Development Course-Seminar for Metrology Personnel

Researcher at the Metrology Institute of KTU Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering who combines her acquired knowledge in the fields of food technology, chemical engineering and measurement engineering. Research areas: chemical metrology, metrology and measurement methodology, research on methods and field of volume and material quantity measurement, research in the field of measurement technology, integrating it with the field of sustainable chemistry. Involved in expert activities in contracts with economic entities for the development of new measurement systems and measurement technologies, in the decision-making process of metrological supervision in industry and in the complex programme of upskilling in the training of metrology specialists.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Paulius Kaškonas is a scientist in the field of measurement engineering with more than 20 years of research and teaching experience gained at the Metrology Institute and the Department of Electronics Engineering of KTU Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. His main areas of scientific interest, reflected in his scientific papers and publications, are metrology and measurement methodology, error and uncertainty analysis, processing, classification and interpretation of measurement results. Paulius Kaškonas has been giving lectures in various courses and seminars on metrology and measurement since 2000 in Lithuanian, Russian and English languages. Years of experience in the field of metrology have helped him combine theory with practice and reveal the nuances of measurement through examples in his courses for the training of metrology specialists in various fields.

Asta is a senior researcher and director of the KTU Metrology Institute since 2012; a member of the Technical Committee "Metrology" of the Lithuanian Standards Board, a technical expert of the National Accreditation Bureau. She has 23 years of research experience in the field of measurement engineering and metrology, specialising in measurements of non-electrical quantities. She provides consulting and expert services in the field of management of measurement and control processes in the company, organisation of verification and calibration, development of methodologies and participates in projects outsourced by economic entities. As a result, she has co-authored more than 30 scientific publications. As part of NAB's expert team, she assesses the compliance of laboratories with applicable testing and inspection standards. She is a regular lecturer in metrology upskilling courses. Since 2002, she has been teaching courses on metrology and measurement methodology.

Justina organises and gives lectures in the comprehensive training programme of metrology specialists, carries out expert activities in the field of compliance assessment of measuring instruments and measurement assurance, participates in chemical metrology research, deepens her knowledge in various training courses related to both metrology and measurement in the broader sense, and participates in fundamental metrology research and experimental development projects. Her research activities are related to the metrological evaluation of various measurement methods, reliability studies and development of metrological infrastructure, and she has the competence and experience in solving current metrology problems. In her free time, she enjoys reading books, lazy holidays in nature or travelling around Lithuania and Europe.

Dr. Benas Gabrielis Urbonavičius is an Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, and Head of the Curriculum Committee for Physics, Materials and Medical Technologies. His research interests include health sciences, physics and measurement engineering. He teaches modules on Nuclear and Particle Physics, Medical Imaging and Methods, Radiation Contamination, Physics of Radiation Medicine, Challenge-based Innovation and others.