Jūras Banys

Jūras Banys is the President of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and a Professor at the Institute of Applied Electrodynamics and Telecommunications, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University.

Prof Banys is a member of the Advisory Board of the European Conference on Applications of Polar Dielectrics, the European Committee on Ferroelectricity, the QAMPERE Group, and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is a foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (Germany), and has an honorary degree from Uzhhorod National University (Ukraine).

His main areas of research are lattice dynamics, ferroelectrics, structural phase transformations, dipole glasses, relaxors, dielectric spectroscopy, multiferroics, composites, and electron paramagnetic resonance. He has published over 600 research articles and presented over 1,300 papers at international conferences.

Prof Jūras Banys has been awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, St Christopher’s statuette, and the Medal of the Baltic Academies of Sciences. He is also a recipient of the Lithuanian Science Prize (2002 and 2023), the Povilas Brazdžiūnas Prize of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and other awards.