People

Meet our team

Czechia

Dr. Ivan Murin

Project leader

email ivan.murin@umb.sk

Dr. Lenka Jakoubkova Budilova

Dr. Jan Horský

Lithuania

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aušra Mlinkauskienė

Principal investigator for Lithuania, Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Research areas identification of landscape values, protection of urban heritage, assessment of the historical, current state and spatial structure of individual immovable cultural heritage sites, complexes and territories, studies on the visibility of cultural heritage sites and the spatial structure of territories, etc.

email ausra.mlinkauskiene@ktu.lt

Prof. dr. Kęstutis Zaleckis

Research areas: Urban complex spatial modeling with focus on indirect relations between urban form and sustainability while using space syntax and another graph-based models, fractal analysis, evaluation of environmental preferences, aspects of environmental legibility, etc.

Dr. Ingrida Povilaitienė 

Research areas: Research on the identity of the cityscape: the physical dimension, the sense of place dimension and the meaning of place dimension. Environmental psychology research – encouragement of environmentally friendly behaviour through urban design.

Dr. Marius Ivaškevičius

Research areas: Urban Shape (As Memory) Influence On Social Capital, Biophilic Analysis of Façades, WiFi dynamics during COVID-19

Shetlands

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andrew Jennings

Principal investigator for Shetlands, Institute for Northern Studies, Centre for Island Creativity,
University of the Highlands and Islands

Associate Professor of Island Studies at UHI. He has a long-standing interest in the history and culture of Shetland and in islands more generally. He runs a webinar series called Island Matters, and a series of workshops exploring the Scottish Islands in 2050 and beyond.

email andrew.jennings@uhi.ac.uk

Dr. Andrew Lind

Andrew is a lecturer at the Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands. A historian by trade, Andrew’s research focuses on the European early modern period. However, having worked on several community impact projects in the past, Andrew is keenly interested in the ways in which history and heritage create and maintain modern identities.