PERSONAL DATA

Dr Biomedical Sciences, Zoology (05B)

Contacts:

Phone: +370 5 2616801

Email: henrikas.ostrauskas@vatzum.lt

 

Birth date:  1952 01 09

Birth place:  Vilnius city, Lithuania

 

Education:

1978-1980                   Postgraduate courses in Ecological genetics at Vilnius State University

1969-1974                   MA in Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences at Vilnius State University

1960-1969                   Vilnius Secondary School No 23

1958 –1960                 Kulautuva Secondary School (first and half of second year subjects)

 

Work Experience:

2002 – currently         Chief specialist, Phytosanitary Research Laboratory, Vilnius

1998 - 2002                 Entomologist, Phytosanitary Research Laboratory, Vilnius

1997 - 1998                 Entomologist, Phytosanitary Research Center, Vilnius

1990 - 1997                 Group leader and division manager, Lithuanian Youth Center, Vilnius

1988 - 1990                 Chief zoologist and chief biologist, Republican Centre of Ecological Research and Information, Vilnius

1982 - 1988                 Division editor of scientific journal "Mūsų Gamta" (Our Nature), Vilnius

1980 - 1982                 Senior scientific editor, Publishing House "Mokslas" (Science), Vilnius

1972, 1974 - 1978       Scientific worker, Zoology Institute in Academy of Sciences

 

Scientific Training

2007    Central Science Laboratory, United Kingdom, Quarantine Insects and similar species

2006    Entomological Division of Diagnostic Center at Netherlands State Plant Protection Service, Quarantine Insects, mites and similar species

2001    Entomological Division of Uppsala Agricultural University, Forest Insects

2001    Entomological Division of Diagnostic Center at Netherlands State Plant Protection Service, Quarantine Insects and similar species

2000    Nizhnegorodskaja oblast, Russian State Plant Protection Service, Forest Insects

 

 

Current Research Activities

 

  • National monitoring programmes on quarantine insect species
  • Insect determination in import, reexport and export of plants and plant origin  products

 

Entomological expeditions

1988 07 15 - 08 12      Russia (Far East, Kedrovaja padj strict nature reserve)

1988 04 27 - 05 14      Turkmenistan (Kairak Kum, Repetek strict nature reserve)

1987 10 02 - 16           Turkmenistan (Siunt Chasardag strict nature reserve, Sumbar river, Parchaj surroudings)

1987 08 03 - 16           Azerbaijan (Lenkoran, Hirkan strict nature reserve, Chosmalian,

Talysch mountains)

1987 04 19 - 05 03      Turkmenistan (Kairak Kum, Repetek strict nature reserve)

1986 09 18 - 10 02      Armenia (Chosrov strict nature reserve, Vedi stream valley)

1986 07 21 - 08 02      Tadzikistan (Varzob river, Zidi, Gissar mountains)

1986 05 13 - 25           Turkmenistan (Ai Dere river gorge, Kara Kala, Parchaj surroundings)

 

Hydrobiological expedition

1976 03 - 04                Tadzikistan (Syr Darja river, Katakurgan water storage in Leninabad region)

 

Societies
  • A Member of Lithuanian Entomological Society
  • A Member of Lithuanian Hydrobiological Society