Ieva Plikusienė. Image: Vilnius University
Prof Ieva Plikusienė discusses the critical importance of biosensor systems in the modern healthcare space.
For Ieva Plikusienė, an associate professor and senior researcher for the School of Chemistry and Geosciences at Vilnius University and a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Basic Science Programme at UNESCO, a love for STEM is in her blood.
Plikusienė told SiliconRepublic.com, “For me, it truly goes back to my childhood. I grew up with a deep fascination for physics, mainly because my father, a professor of physics, showed me just how captivating and beautiful the field could be. He had a gift for making complex ideas incredibly interesting, which sparked a lifelong curiosity in me to understand how the world works at its most fundamental level.”
Initially, during her education, Plikusienė focused on astrophysics, however, around this time she also discovered the world of nanomaterials and the specific physics-based methods that are created to explore their properties. Soon, her foundational love for physics began to intersect with a “desire to solve real-world problems”.
