Lithuania
Mažvydas Jastramskis lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science (IIRPS) at the Vilnius University since 2013. He completed his studies in Comparative Politics at the IIRPS in 2009, having obtained the degree of MA in Political Science. From 2009 to 2013 he was a PhD student at the IIRPS and also worked as both teaching assistant and research associate in several research projects. In 2013 he published and publicly defended doctoral dissertation on the electoral volatility in the Lithuanian local elections. His priorities in teaching and research include quantitative methods, electoral behaviour, party systems and radical right political movements.
Ainė Ramonaitė is Professor at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. She is the principal investigator of the Lithuanian National Election Study. Her research focuses on political attitudes, electoral behavior, social movements, and mechanisms of collective behavior in post-communist countries.