Education and Academic degrees: M.Sc. in Veterinary Surgery, Lithuanian Veterinary Academy, Kaunas, Lithuania; Ph.D., Zoology, Vilnius University and Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania. Current position: Researcher at the P.B. Šivickis Laboratory of Parasitology, Nature Research Centre, Lithuania. Research areas: morphology, identification, systematics and phylogeny of helminthes based on morphological and molecular methods.