Dr. Alvyra Šlepetienė is the Head of the laboratory, and chief researcher (Chemical Research Laboratory) at the Institute of Agriculture, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry. She has a chemist—lecturer diploma in Analytical Chemistry, at the Faculty of Chemistry, Vilnius University after studying there from 1976 to 1981. Then, she started her doctoral studies at the Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture (since 2010 Institute of Agriculture, LAMMC) in 1997 and obtained a doctoral degree in biomedical sciences (agronomy) in 1997. Her main research fields are the application of modern analytical and bioanalytical methods seeking to investigate the variation of the chemical composition of agricultural plants, medicinal plants, vegetables, grasses, cereals, raw materials, forage, silage, energy crops as influenced by different land management practices and climate conditions; investigation and evaluation of climate and anthropogenic activities effect on organic carbon sequestration and stabilization processes in agricultural and protected areas.