fotoLinas Didvalis will be joining Centre for Asian Studies’ staff from this February as a researcher. His research specialty is environmental policy in East and Southeast Asia, especially in the areas of climate change and forest protection. Linas will be responsible for the cooperation projects with Japan and Korea.

Linas Didvalis received his BA degree in political science (2009) and MA degree in East Asian studies (2011) at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), and PhD in political science (2015) as a Monbukagakusho Scholarship recipient at International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan). In 2007 he received JASSO scholarship to study at Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) and VMU scholarship in 2011 to spend one semester studying at Chung Ang University (Seoul, South Korea).