Aistė works on ab-initio and experimental investigations to analyse negative thermal expansion properties in materials.

Interests

Relationships between materials crystallographic structure and its properties.

Education

March 2021 - Present: PhD Student at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany (tutelage of Dr.-Ing. Björn Mieller, Prof. Dr. Janine George, Dr. Tomasz Stawski)
2019 – 2021: Master in ‘Materials Science Exploring Large Scale Facilities’ at the University of Montpellier, France and University of Torino, Italy.
2014 – 2018: Bachelor in ‘Chemistry of Nanomaterials’ at the Vilnius University, Lithuania.
Subject Pedagogy adjacent studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania (graduated 2018-01-26).

February 2021 - July 2021:: Master Thesis in Laboratory of Metallurgy University of Turin, Italy
- Design of porous metallic surfaces for antibacterial properties by anodization, zinc electrodeposition, and dealloying of titanium based metallic glasses
April 2020 - July 2020: Internship at Nanostructures of Functional Oxides research group in the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Netherlands.
- Single crystal structure determination with ApexIII program.
March 2019 - June 2019: Molecular Crystal Engineering Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Bologna, Italy.
- Preparation and characterization of proflavine; synthesis, analysis of co-crystals implementing CuCl/ CuCl₂ / AgNO₃.
November 2018 - January 2019: Bioinorganic Chemistry and Drug Development (BIOIN), University of Lisbon, Portugal.
- Synthesis and analysis of vanadium (IV) and (V) complexes.
February 2017 - June 2018: Sol-Gel research group, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (NFTMC), Vilnius University, Lithuania.
- Sol gel , solid state synthesis and structural characterization, optical properties of cerium doped strontium aluminates and cordierite.
February 2017 - June 2018: Solid state research group, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón de la plana, Spain.
- Sol – gel synthesis of ceramic materials and characterization of structure formation.