VALERIIA BARANAUSKAITE

+(972)-539-027-299 ◇ valeriia@post.bgu.ac.il

EDUCATION _________________________________________________________________________________

PhD in Chemistry October 2019 - Present
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel
Faculty of Natural Science
Department of Chemistry

MA in Physics August 2018 - June 2019
Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland
Computational Engineering and Technical Physics Department
Double-degree masters program

MA in Chemistry September 2016 - June 2018
Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Institute of Chemistry
Department of Inorganic and General Chemistry

BA in Chemistry September 2012 - June 2016
Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Institute of Chemistry
Department of Physical Chemistry

EXPERIENCE____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Institute of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Dept.
Laboratory assistant October 2021 – Present

  • developing tasks for students and managing laboratory experiments with students

St. Petersburg State University, Institute of Chemistry, Laser Chemistry Dept.
Research engineer February 2019 – October 2019

  • developing new gas sensors with LCLD method and supervising students in the research group

St. Petersburg State University, Institute of Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry Dept.
Laboratory assistant September 2017 – August 2018

  • developing tasks for students and preparing materials for experiments

PUBLICATIONS ______________________________________________________________________________

[1]    M. I. Egorova, A. V. Egorov, V. E. Baranauskaite, and V. I. Chizhik, “Local structure and molecular mobility in ternary system LiNO3-NaNO3-H2O at room temperature, according to data from molecular dynamics simulation,” Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 96, pp. 1433–1438, July 2022.

[2]     M. Turgeman, V. Wineman-Fisher, F. Malchik, A. Saha, G. Bergman, B. Gavriel, T. R. Penki, A. Nimkar, V. Baranauskaite, H. Aviv, M. D. Levi, M. Noked, D. T. Major, N. Shpigel, and D. Aurbach, “A cost-effective water-in-salt electrolyte enables highly stable operation of a 2.15-v aqueous lithium-ion battery,” Cell Reports Physical Science, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 100688, 2022.

[3]    V. Baranauskaite, M. Belysheva, O. Pestova, Y. Anufrikov, M. Skripkin, Y. Kondratiev, and V. Khripun, “Thermodynamic description of dilution and dissolution processes in the MgCl2−CsCl−H2O ternary system,” Materials, vol. 14, p. 4047, July 2021.

[4]    V. Baranauskaite, O. Pestova, M. Vovk, V. Matveev, and E. Lähderanta, “Local dynamics in LiCl−CsCl−D2O water-in-salt solutions according to nmr relaxation,” Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, vol. 21, no. 41, pp. 22895–22901, 2019.

[5]     M. Skripkin, L. Chernykh, O. Pestova, V. Baranauskaite, K. Burkov, I. Zamyatin, L. Stepakova, I. Gusev, A. Gorbunov, N. Bogachev, and G. Starova, “Influence of interactions in solutions on the solid phase formation in ternary water-salt systems,” Russian Journal of General Chemistry, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 1085–1101, 2019.

[6]    V. Baranauskaite, M. Novomlinskii, I. Tumkin, E. Khairullina, A. Mereshchenko, I. Balova, M. Panov, and V. Kochemirovsky, “In situ laser-induced synthesis of gas sensing microcomposites based on molybdenum and its oxides,” Composites Part B: Engineering, vol. 157, pp. 322–330, 2019.

[7]    O. Pestova, V. Bukesova, Y. Kondrat’ev, V. Khripun, and V. Baranauskaite, “Energy characteristics of lithium cesium binary chloride dissolution in water,” Russian Journal of General Chemistry, vol. 88, no. 3, pp. 596–597, 2018.

[8]    O. Pestova, A. Efimov, L. Myund, A. Kudrev, V. Khripun, A. Davidian, and V. Baranauskaite, “Structural inhomogeneity in electrolyte solutions: The calcium perchlorate–water system,” Journal of Solution Chemistry, vol. 46, no. 9-10, pp. 1854–1870, 2017.

[9]    O. Pestova, V. Baranauskaite, and M. Khripun, “Formation of binary salts in the system LiCl−CsCl−H2O,” Russian Journal of General Chemistry, vol. 86, no. 4, pp. 767–770, 2016.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS __________________________________________________________

ISSP17, International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena and Related Equilibrium Processes, Geneva, Switzerland. July, 2016

Science and Progress-2016, International Student Conference, St.Petersburg State University. November, 2016

Chemistry, Physics, and Mechanics of Materials, the 11th student conference, St.Petersburg State University. December, 2016

Mendeleev-2017, the 10th International conference for young chemists, St.Petersburg State University. April, 2017

Magnetic resonance and its applications (SPINUS), the 14th International Youth School-Conference, St.Petersburg State University. April, 2017

III Simposio de Nanociencias y Nanomateriales, UNAM, Mexico. June, 2017

Theoretical and experimental chemistry of liquid phase systems (Krestov discussions), the 11th Russian school-conference for young scientists. October, 2017

Science and Progress-2017, International Student Conference, St.Petersburg State University. November, 2017

Magnetic resonance and its applications (SPINUS), the 15th International Youth School-Conference, St.Petersburg State University April, 2018

ISSP18, International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena and Related Equilibrium Processes, Tours, France. July, 2018

Magnetic resonance and its applications (SPINUS), the 16th International Youth School-Conference, St.Petersburg State University. April, 2019

Mendeleev-2019, the 11th International conference for young chemists, St.Petersburg State University. September, 2019

ACS meeting: Sustainability in a Changing World, Chicago, USA. August, 2022

European Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Systems (MOLEC), Hamburg, Germany. August, 2022

ISSP20, International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena and Related Equilibrium Processes, Instituto Politècnico de Bragança, Portugal. September, 2022

HONOURS AND AWARDS __________________________________________________________________

Award for the best oral presentation at ”ISSP20, International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena and Related Equilibrium Processes”. September, 2022
Award for the best oral presentation at ”Mendeleev-2019, the 10th International conference for young chemists” conference. September, 2019
Award for the best oral presentation at “SPINUS” conference. April, 2018
Award for the best oral presentation at ”Theoretical and experimental chemistry of liquid phase systems (Krestov discussions)” conference. October, 2017

SKILLS ________________________________________________________________________________________

Equipment & methods     NMR, FTIR, Raman, NIR, XRD, XRS, XPS, SIMS, SEM, EDX
     Various laser equipment, Stopped-flow systems
Software & Tools    LaTeX, Origin, Wolfram Mathematica, Matlab,
     Python (Jupyter Notebook, NumPy, Matplotlib)
Chemical Software    Gaussian, Avogadro, ChemDraw, Chemcraft, MestReNova, Diamond

REFERENCES____________________________________________________________________________________________________

  • Pestova Olga – o.pestova@spbu.ru
  • Skripkin Mikhail – m.skripkin@spbu.ru
  • Ehud Pines – epines@bgu.ac.il