Milda Ališauskienė is Professor of Sociology at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. Her research interests include the role of religion in the post-socialist society, religion and state relations, religious diversity, minority religions, gender and religion. She has published on the role of religion in contemporary Lithuania and the Baltic States and the place of minority religions in the country's religious field.

Milda Ališauskienė is the principal investigator in the international research project “Religion and Gender Equality: Baltic and Nordic Developments“ and national research project "Minority Religions in Contemporary Lithuania". Since 2021 she is the chair of COST Action CA20107 - Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity (COREnet).