20 June 2023 The Presidium of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (LAS), on the basis of the proposals of the expert commissions of the scientific divisions of the LAS for Young Scientists' Fellowships, has awarded 15 fellowships to the best young scientists in the fields of humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, biomedical sciences, technology and agriculture.
For the 2023 LMA Young Scientists Fellowships, 70 applications were submitted: 18 in the humanities and social sciences, 52 in the physical sciences, biomedicine, technology and agriculture. One of these fellowships was awarded to Dr Mantas Šimėnas.
The applications were evaluated by the LMA's panels of experts in the different fields of science. Three fellowships were awarded in each of the humanities and social, physical, biomedical, technological and agricultural sciences. Of these, 3 scholarships were awarded to young scientists from the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, 2 scholarships were awarded to young scientists from Vilnius, Klaipėda and Vilnius Gediminas Technical Universities and the Centre for Physical Sciences and Technology, and 1 scholarship was awarded to young scientists from Kaunas University of Technology, the National Cancer Institute, the Nature Research Centre, and the Lithuanian Centre of Agrarian and Forest Sciences.
Information from the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences