Jurgita Zekonyte Portrait

Dr Jurgita Zekonyte

Senior Lecturer

Jurgita.Zekonyte@port.ac.uk

PhD Supervisor

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Faculty of Technology School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering Advanced Polymers and Composites Research Group ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø Centre for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing

Biography

I obtained a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania in 1999. In the same year, I was offered a scholarship from the town of Kiel to study for a Masters in Materials Science and Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany. I graduated with a Master of Science degree in 2001, together with the Professor Werner Petersen award for best Master's Thesis. I obtained an Engineering Doctorate in Materials Sciences and Engineering from the same institution in 2005. As a postdoctoral researcher/fellow, I have worked at Queen Mary University London, University of Liverpool and University of Southampton. I joined the School of Engineering at the ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø in October 2014.

During my studies and subsequent post-doctoral experience I became proficient in areas relating to materials and surface science, interfaces, tribology, nanotechnology and nanocomposites, physical, mechanical and chemical analysis and characterization of materials in engineering and life science sectors.

My special interests are in smart, light-weight polymer nanocomposites, self-adapting nanocoatings, as well as tribological and mechanical properties investigation of various materials and biological tissues at nanoscale.

Research outputs

2024

Davis, S., Karali, A., Balcaen, T., Zekonyte, J., Pétré, M., Roldo, M., Kerckhofs, G., Blunn, G.

1 Apr 2024, In: Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 152, 10p., 106414

Research output: Article

2023

Davis, S. L., Karali, A., Blunn, G. W., Zekonyte, J., Roldo, M.

23 Aug 2023, In: Bioengineering. 10, 9, 17p., 995

Research output: Article

Davis, S., Karali, A., Zekonyte, J., Roldo, M., Blunn, G.

1 Aug 2023, In: Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 144, 11p., 105999

Research output: Article

Karali, A., Dall'Ara, E., Zekonyte, J., Kao, A. P., Blunn, G., Tozzi, G.

1 Feb 2023, In: Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 138, 10p., 105636

Research output: Article

2021

Sanguedolce, M., Zekonyte, J., Alfano, M.

8 Oct 2021, In: Applied Sciences. 11, 19, 14p., 9317

Research output: Article

Karali, A., Kao, A., Zekonyte, J., Blunn, G. W., Tozzi, G.

1 Mar 2021, In: Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials. 115, 10p., 104298

Research output: Article

Geofrey, M., Sieder, O., Zekonyte, J., Barbaros, I., Wood, R.

24 Feb 2021, In: Wear, 203720

Research output: Article

2020

Dotcheva, M., Favrot, J., Dotchev, K., Zekonyte, J.

19 Nov 2020, In: Procedia Manufacturing. 51, 7p.

Research output: Article

Wheeler, D., Zekonyte, J., Wood, R. J. K.

9 Sep 2020, In: Journal of Nuclear Materials, 152497

Research output: Article

Ragazzola, F., Kolzenburg, R., Zekonyte, J., Teichert, S., Jiang, C., Zulevic, A., Caragnano, A., Falace, A.

24 Aug 2020, In: Plants. 9, 9, 13p., 1089

Research output: Article