Dr. Marius Urbonavicius is a researcher at the
Center for Hydrogen Energy Technologies and UAB Inovatas. Since 2018, Marius
has also worked as an innovation manager at the R&D and innovation transfer
unit of the Lithuanian Energy Institute. He completed his master’s degree in
energy and environment at the Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas in 2012 and his
PhD in energy and thermal engineering at the Lithuanian Energy Institute in
2017. He is a member of Lithuanian Hydrogen Energy Association. His main
scientific and research activities are focused on (1) hydrogen generation using
reaction between metals and water; (2) the development and analysis of metal
hydrides for hydrogen storage applications; (3) thin films synthesis and
surface modification by plasma; and (4) the development of photocatalytically
active titanium oxide films.
Dr. Sarunas Varnagiris is a senior researcher at the Center for Hydrogen Energy Technologies and UAB Inovatas, the managing director of the Lithuanian hydrogen energy association. He completed his master’s degree in engineering physics at Kaunas University of Technology in 2013 and his PhD in energetics and power engineering at the Lithuanian Energy Institute in 2017. Dr. Sarunas is a member of the Lithuanian Young Scientist Union. His main activities include the development of hydrogen energy technologies, thin film synthesis on various substrates, and the development of photocatalytic active materials.
Christiaan Richter is a full professor of chemical
engineering at the University of Iceland. He received his Ph.D. in chemical
engineering from Northeastern University in Boston. Subsequently, he completed a
postdoc in the Department of Chemistry at Yale and served on the faculty of the
Chemical Engineering department at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In
2016, he joined the faculty at the University of Iceland and focused on biofuel
and e-fuel production, both in academic research and by participating in industry
projects. His key research areas include conductivity, titanium dioxide,
terahertz spectroscopy, chemical thermodynamics, catalysis support, hydrogen
production, and downdraft.
Dr. Darius Milcius is head of the Center for Hydrogen Energy Technologies and senior researcher at UAB Inovatas. Since 2001, he has been an expert on Tasks 17–32 of the International Energy Agency Hydrogen Implementing Agreement (IEA-HIA). He completed his bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering and his master’s degree in applied physics at Kaunas University of Technology in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He subsequently earned his PhD in materials engineering at the Lithuanian Energy Institute in 2020. Dr. Darius Milcius has excellent experience in participating in international projects: he was a coordinator of two projects on the development of energy storage technologies with Sandia National Laboratories (USA), which the USA DoE funded; a participant in three Nordic Energy Research Programme projects, four projects in EU FP6, two COST projects; participant in H2020 and Horizon Europe projects, the leader of two projects funded by EU structural funds; and the leader of a project on the implementation of energy storage technologies in the military environment, which the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence funded. Darius Milcius has been a national contact person for the FCH 2 JU States Representatives Group 2016–2020. He is skilled in thin films, nanomaterial synthesis, characterization at the nanoscale, and mathematical modeling.
