Julius Burkauskas is (since 2011) research assistant, PhD student and Clinical Psychologist in the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Medical Academy Behavioral Medicine Institute (LUHS MA BMI). Trained in basic psychology at the University of Vilnius, Lithuania, he received his M.Sc in Clinical Psychology in 2011 at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

His research mainly focuses on psychosomatic medicine examining the effects of mental distress, fatigue, endocrine and inflammatory factors on cognitive functioning in patients admitted for cardiac rehabilitation program after acute coronary events.

Julius received several awards such as the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Certificate (2013), ECNP Travel award (2013), LUHS Science Fund Travel award (2013), International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Travel award (2014).

Julius serves as associate member of the ECNP and is member of several  Lithuanian Psychologist and Biological Psychiatry societies. He is member of the editorial board of journal Biological Psychiatry and Psychopharmacology.