Saulė Petronienė holds a PhD in humanities and is a professor at Kaunas University of Technology, Institute of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (Translation and Language Studies Research Group), She is also the head of the Foreign Language Centre. Her research interests cover applied linguistics, communication, and discourse analysis. She has been teaching at KTU since 1999 and is currently leading BA and MA foreign language courses. She is a member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics, NERA (Northeastern Educational Research Association), and the EST (European Society for Translation Studies).