Kristina leads Vilnius University Innovation Office, that facilitates university collaboration with business partners in the area of knowledge and technology transfer.
With the Phd in strategic management and over a decade of professional experience in innovation management and technology transfer, Kristina focuses on IP protection, R&D commercialisation, industry networking as well as mentors and advises entrepreneurs and start-ups of university's community on innovation support issues. Project portfolio includes coordination of the UNITeD (funded by European Innovation and Technology Institute (EIT)), WP lead in the UNIcorn (EIT funded), Chair of the Knowledge Transfer Focus group in Alliance4Life (Horizon 2020) and others. Since 2021 Kristina is a Registered Technology Transfer Professional, also member of the ASTP.
Currently Kristina also leads “TTO Lithuania” a network of Lithuania’s technology transfer professionals at universities.