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Prof. Dr. K. Baltakys is Doctor of Science in the field of technological sciences, and chemical engineering, Professor of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Technology. His main research interests include the development, structural properties, and application of calcium silicates and their derivatives with other non-organic oxides for innovative technologies. He has carried out and systematized extensive theoretical and applied research, and has obtained new scientific results which have an impact and significance for the development of high technologies and the creation of new technologies that can be implemented in Lithuanian conditions as well as elsewhere. Prof. Dr. K. Baltakys has participated in and led 3 international and 25 national projects. He has been cooperating with international partners from the European Union and the USA for several years, with whom he has signed R&D cooperation agreements. Prof. Dr. K. Baltakys has published more than 270 scientific publications in scientific periodicals, including 138 publications with the citation index in the Clarivate Analytics WoS database, a scientific monograph, three textbooks, and 2 educational books. He has obtained 2 national patents. He has supervised 7 successfully defended doctoral dissertations, has been a member of 7 doctoral dissertation defense committees, and is a member of the Doctoral Committee in Chemical Engineering and the Doctoral Committee in Civil Engineering at KTU. Prof. Dr. K. Baltakys has had internships at the Insti-tut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Rennes, France, at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, at Riga Technical University, Latvia, at the Uni-versity of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic and at Technical University of Carta-gena (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena), Spain. Prof. Dr. K. Baltakys has presented over 100 papers at international conferences in Latvia, France, Serbia, Belgium, Spain, and other