On April 28, Dr. Giedrė Zablackaitė, an engineer working at the company “Hitachi GE Vernova Nuclear Energy, Ltd.” in Japan, visited the Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI).
Together with representatives of the Laboratory of Nuclear Installation Safety and the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory, she discussed Lithuania’s role and opportunities in the field of nuclear energy.
During the meeting, LEI researchers presented the institute’s research directions and ongoing scientific activities. Dr. G. Zablackaitė visited the laboratories of Nuclear Engineering and Combustion Processes and was introduced to their infrastructure and ongoing research.
Dr. G. Zablackaitė is a former student of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). She later continued her studies and scientific work at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (now – the Institute of Science Tokyo) in Japan. After her doctoral studies, she carried out postdoctoral research at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, where she focused on nuclear energy technologies and safety assessment issues.
Currently, Dr. G. Zablackaitė works at “Hitachi GE Vernova Nuclear Energy, Ltd.” in the Nuclear Power Plant Engineering Department, in the Nuclear Reactor Engineering Division, and contributes to the design and evaluation of nuclear safety systems.
