Salomėja Zaksaitė is a Lithuanian chess player with the title of Woman International Master, scholar of criminal law and criminologist.
Education
From 1998 to 2003 she attended Kaunas University of Technology Gymnasium. After she graduated from her 2003 to 2008 program of master studies in law (with Specialization of Criminology), and then from 2008 to 2012, the doctoral program at the Law Faculty of Vilnius University.
Career
In 2003 she was awarded the title of Women International Master (WIM). Foreign the Lithuanian women"s team, she played at the Chess Olympiad 2002, Chess Olympiad 2014 and at the European Team Championships in 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2013. Her current and highest Elo rating is 2286 (March 2016).
2014 her rating was second to Viktorija Čmilytė at Lithuania"s Elo ranking of women.
Her trainer was Gintautas Petraitis (b 1944), ICCGM. Current trainer is Vaidas Sakalauskas (b 1971), IM. On 27 January 2012, she received a doctorate in criminal law and sports law on the "Cheating in Sports: Prevalence and Prevention Problems" (lit "Sukčiavimo sporto srityje paplitimas ir prevencijos problemos") by Associate Professor Doctor Anna Drakšienė.
From November 2006 to January 2008 Zaksaitė was as an assistant and from January 2008 to March 2009 as a chief specialist in the Juvenile law sector of Criminological research department of From March 2009 to March 2011 she was researcher in the Department of Legal system research and after in Department of Criminal justice of Law Institute. 2012 she was teacher at European Humanities University.
From April 2013 to March Zaksaitė was postdoctoral researcher at Mykolas Romeris University under the Project “Postdoctoral Fellowship Implementation in Lithuania”.
The project puts into effect the Measure for Enhancing Mobility of Scholars and Other Researchers under the Program of Human Resources Development Action Plan. Project Manager was the Research Council of Lithuania. Salomėja Zaksaitė analyzed legal issues of fraud situations in sports.
Her supervisor was Associate
Professor Alfredas Kiškis. Zaksaitė speaks English, Russian and German.
Zaksaitė"s research interests is: Criminology (Crime prevention issues. Corruption issues; Deviation in sports) Criminalization and Decriminalization Sports law (esp concerning doping and match-fixing) Juvenile justice.
Membership
Zaksaitė is a Member of the Council of Lithuanian Association of Criminology.