After trading the chilly winds of Minnesota for sunny Florida, I now spend most of my time at the Institute for Fundamental Theory (IFT) at the University of Florida, focusing on the cosmology of the early universe.Â
I was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, and later moved to the UK, earning my B. Sc. from the University of Southampton. Pursuing further studies, I completed my M.Sc. in Astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and later earned my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota working with Keith Olive, exploring no-scale supergravity and inflation.