Dr. Mažena Mackoit-Sinkevičienė

Dr. Mažena Mackoit-Sinkevičienė

Scientist · Physicist · Science Communicator

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Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project
YouTube · Brief Physics Lecture

Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project

Did you know a Lithuanian had a hand in the Manhattan Project? This episode is part of the school education programme. (In Lithuanian.)

My illustration: ultracold fermionic atoms trapped in a periodic optical superlattice
Research

Research

Quantum and nonlinear optics, cold atoms, non-classical spin states and point defects in hBN and diamond. Papers in leading journals, 1000+ citations.

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Awards

  • 2025Baltic Women in Science Fellowship (UNESCO and the Baltic Academies of Sciences)
  • 2024Selected for the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Germany)
  • 2021Award of the Government of Lithuania for leading the national team at the International Physics Olympiad
  • 2021, 2023Lithuanian Academy of Sciences science-promotion awards

Selected honours. All awards are on the About page →

Fractals
YouTube · new

Fractals

Why do tree branches, blood vessels, lightning and even the Lithuanian coastline follow the same “logic”? Patterns that repeat endlessly. (In Lithuanian.)

The Three-Body Problem
YouTube · popular

The Three-Body Problem

Tatooine from Star Wars has more than one sun. Could such a planet exist, and why can’t the motion of three bodies be predicted exactly? (In Lithuanian.)

Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 80 Years On
YouTube · Brief Physics Lecture

Hiroshima and Nagasaki – 80 Years On

A story about how to survive an atomic bomb. This episode was filmed in Hiroshima, Japan (2024), and is now part of the school education programme. (In Lithuanian.)

With student Ugnė Šilingaitė at the VU Faculty of Physics after her bachelor’s thesis defence
Vilnius University

Teaching

At Vilnius University I teach solid state physics and study skills. Students learn as future researchers: writing abstracts and presenting at their first scientific conference.

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