Marija Drėmaitė is a Professor at Vilnius University, Faculty of History. Her research is focused on 20th century architecture, industrial culture and cultural heritage. She curates exhibitions and publishes books on architectural history: Baltic Modernism: Architecture and Housing in Soviet Lithuania (Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2017), and an edited the volume Architecture of Optimism: The Kaunas Phenomenon, 1918–1940 (Vilnius: Lapas, 2018) with co-authors. She was also an expert group leader in preparation of the UNESCO World Heritage nomination file “Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919–1939” (2021).