CURRICULUM VITAE
JANIS SPIGULIS
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Date and place of birth |
9 May 1950 in Riga, Latvia |
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Address |
University of Latvia, Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy &
Physics Department, Jelgavas 3/607, Riga,
LV-1004, LATVIA |
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Phone |
+371 29485347 |
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Web |
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E-mail |
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Education |
Degree received |
Discipline |
Year |
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Univ. of Latvia |
M. Sc. |
Physics |
1973 |
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Univ. of Latvia |
Ph. D. |
Optics |
1979 |
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Univ. of Latvia |
Dr. Habil. Phys. |
Technical Physics |
1993 |
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Univ. of Latvia |
Professor |
Applied Optics and Optoelectronics |
1995 |
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Univ. of Latvia |
State Professor |
Laser Physics and Spectroscopy |
1998 |
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Ph. D. thesis (1979): |
Study of the sensitized fluorescence of metal
vapor mixtures at pulsed excitation |
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Dr. Habil. Phys.
Thesis (1993): |
Optoelectronic methods and devices for experimental
research, technological control and information
transfer |
J. Spigulis graduated as physicist from the University of Latvia (UL) in 1973. He joined the Laboratory of Spectroscopy Problems at UL
to study kinetics of the collisional energy transfer in metal vapor mixtures;
results of this work have been summarized at his Ph. D. thesis (Riga, 1979).
Later in 1980 - 1985 he dealt with ion mass analysis in laser excited atomic
beams as well as with infrared emitter-receiver systems and pulsed optical
radiation detection/calibration techniques. Since 1986 his research activities
are focused to fiber optics, optoelectronics and
biomedical optics. In 1997 J.Spigulis established
and since then leads the Biophotonics Laboratory at Institute
of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy (IAPS), UL. His recent work has been
related to development of novel optical methods and devices for noninvasive
clinical diagnostics and monitoring. J.Spigulis has
supervised 10
defended PhD Thesis on the
topics of biophotonics.
Since
1973 J. Spigulis has been a staff researcher at University of Latvia in
positions of Junior Research Associate (1973-1980), Senior Research Associate
(1980-1986), Leading Researcher (1986-now) and Professor (1998-now). Over the
period 2004-2012 he served as Director of IAPS. Dr. Spigulis has developed
and teached lecture courses
"Lightguide Physics", "Optoelectronics", “Laser
Physics” and “Earth Physics” for BSc students, as well as "Fundamentals of
Biomedical Optics", "Medical Lightguides", “Lasers in
Physics and Medicine” and “Biophotonics” for MSc students. In 1995 he launched
one of the first in Europe MSc programme on
Biomedical Optics at University of Latvia and
actively coordinated this programme over
the following years until 2007.
J.Spigulis has
proposed, managed and supervised a number of research projects; the largest so
far has been a 2M€ ESF project “Biophotonics Research
Group” (2009-2012). As inventor, he is holder of a
number of patents. The research
results have been published in more than 200 scientific papers; his
Hirsch index (Scopus) H = 20. Results were presented at numerous international
conferences and seminars worldwide. He has been
invited as keynote lecturer, committee member or session chairman at several international conferences
and was actively involved in organization of regional conferences ADVANCED
OPTICAL MATERIALS AND DEVICES (AOMD) in Riga (1996/2002/2008/2014), Vilnius
(2000/2006/2011) and Tartu (2004). J. Spigulis chaired the AOMD-6, AOMD-8,
“Biophotonics Riga – 2013”, “Biophotonics Riga – 2017” and “Biophotonics
Riga – 2020” conferences and co-chaired the 14th Nordic-Baltic Conference on
Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics in 2008. He has also provided a
number of expert services, i.e. as expert-evaluator of the EC FP-5, FP-6, FP-7 and
H-2020 projects. In 1995 J. Spigulis was involved in a 6-month medical fiber optics
research project at King's College London (UK), as well as in the EU TEMPUS
project on Medical engineering and physics education in the Baltic states, the
TEMPERE project on a similar topic with University of Patras (GR), two
LEONARDO DA VINCI projects on vocational training, two VISBY projects with
Swedish universities (Lund and Linkoping), Latvian-American research collaboration
project with Columbia University (USA), Latvian-Lithuanian-Taiwanese project on
cancer cell studies, sabbatical research and teaching at universities of Sao
Paulo (BR) and Barcelona (SP), and others.
In parallel with academic
activities, J. Spigulis has been involved in optics-related businesses. He was
co-founder of two companies – SOMTA, Ltd. (1989) and ANDA OPTEC, Ltd.
(1994), where he served as CEO and Board member, respectively. Dr.
Spigulis has represented the photonics industry of Baltic countries at several
SPIE exhibitions in San Jose and San Diego (USA); in 2012-2019 he has served in
leadership of the Baltic Photonics
Cluster.
J. Spigulis was the founder,
chairman and co-chairman of the Baltic Chapter of SPIE – the International Society for Optics and Photonics; he has been
also a member of Optical Society of America (OSA), European Optical Society (EOS), Latvian Union of Scientists, Latvian Physical Society and Latvian
Society of Medical Engineering and Physics. Dr. Spigulis
is chairing the Latvian regional committee of ICO – International Commission for Optics and represents Latvia in
the Biophotonics4Life Worldwide Consortium; over the years 2016-2020 he chaired the Division of Physical and
Technical Sciences at the Latvian
Academy of Sciences.
Contributions of J. Spigulis
have been recognized by awarding the grades of Corresponding Member of the
Latvian Academy of Sciences (2007), SPIE Fellow (2011) and Academician of the Latvian Academy of
Sciences (2012). He has received the prestigious “Golden Owl” Grindex award (2007), Walther Zapp best inventor award (2013), Latvia’s Cabinet of Ministers Distinction award (2015) and
the Grand
Medal of Latvian Academy of Sciences (2021).
Extended
illustrated CV (in Latvian) is available here.
