Rūta Petrauskaitė

Vytautas Magnus University

Rūta Petrauskaitė is a professor at the Department of Lithuanian Studies. Currently she acts as the director of the Institute of the Digital Resources and Interdisciplinary Research (SITTI) at Vytautas Magnus University.

In the last decade she has been a vice-president of the Research Council of Lithuania and the Chair of the Committee of Social Sciences and Humanities. Internationally she got involved in the activities of the Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN), Science Europe Research Data working group and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Her research interests comprise a range of topics from linguistics to discourse analyses. She initiated and supervised compilations of the first big corpora of the Lithuanian language and corpus based research in a few fields of linguistics.

Rūta Petrauskaitė is a proponent of data-driven research, Open Science and data sharing initiatives. https://www.vdu.lt/cris/entities/person/ruta-petrauskaite