Dr Vejune Zemaityte is a researcher and analytics specialist with over 10 years of experience transforming complex cultural and media datasets into actionable insights. Her work combines empirical research, quantitative analysis, and data visualisation to examine global creative and media industries.

She has researched film production, theatrical distribution, film festivals, public service broadcasting, and historical newsreels, with a particular focus on diversity — including gender representation in media production and distribution, as well as cultural and thematic content diversity. Her work draws on large-scale datasets such as the Cinando film festival database, the Kinomatics global theatrical showtime dataset, the Estonian National Broadcast archive, and 75 years of Soviet newsreels.

Vejune has contributed to 15 national and international projects supported by research schemes including Horizon Europe, Erasmus Mundus, and national funding programmes in Australia and Estonia, with a collective budget exceeding €8 million. She has co-authored 19 publications and delivered more than 60 talks and presentations, sharing insights with both academic and industry audiences.

Her research is interdisciplinary, data-driven, and industry-facing, developed in collaboration with academic, policy, and industry partners worldwide. She also has extensive experience teaching and mentoring graduate students in data analysis and visualisation.