CURRICULUM
VITAE
JANIS SPIGULIS
Date and place of birth : 9 May 1950 in Riga, Latvia
Address: Institute
of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy / Physics Department
University
of Latvia
Raina Blvd.
19
Riga,
LV-1586
LATVIA
Phone/Fax:
+371 6722 8249
E-mail: janis.spigulis[at]lu.lv
Web : www.lanet.lv/~spigulis/
Education Degree Discipline Year
received
Univ. of Latvia M. Sc. Physics 1973
Univ. of Latvia Ph. D. Optics 1979
Univ. of
Latvia Dr. Habil. Phys. Technical Physics 1993
Univ. of Latvia Professor Applied Optics and Optoelectronics 1995
Univ. of Latvia State
Professor Laser Physics and
Spectroscopy 1998
Ph. D. thesis (1979): Study of the
sensitized fluorescence of metal vapor
mixtures
at pulsed excitation.
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 of 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 and calibration techniques. Since 1986
his research activities are focused to fiber optics, optoelectronics and
biomedical optics; he established and leads the Biophotonics
Laboratory at Institute of
Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy (IAPS), UL. His recent work
has been related to design and investigation of optical fiber sensors,
communication devices, medical light guide systems and new types of the
side-glowing optical fibers, as well as to development of novel optical methods
and devices for noninvasive clinical diagnostics and monitoring.
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 (1986-1994, 2011-now)
and Professor (1998-now). Over the period 2004-2012 he served as IAPS director.
Dr. Spigulis has developed lecture courses "Lightguide
Physics", "Optoelectronics", “Laser Physics” and “Earth Physics”
for BSc students, as well as "Fundamentals of Biomedical Optics",
"Medical Lightguides" and “Lasers in
Physics and Medicine” for MSc students. In 1995 he launched one of the first in
Europe MSc programme on Biomedical Optics at
University of Latvia and actively co-ordinated this programme over the following years. J.Spigulis
has proposed, managed and supervised a number of research
projects; the largest so far has been the 2M€ ESF project “Biophotonics Research Group”
(2009-2012). As inventor, he is a holder of a number of patents.
The research results have been presented at numerous international conferences and
seminars in Europe and North America. In 1995 J. Spigulis was involved in a 6-month
medical fiber optics research project at King's College London, UK. Other
international activities include participation 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, Greece,
two LEONARDO DA VINCI projects – on vocational training with Vilnius University
and on clinical research course with Austrian colleagues, and two VISBY
projects with Swedish universities (Lund and Linkoping), as well as
Latvian-American research collaboration project on functional diagnostics with
Columbia University, Latvian-Lithuanian-Taiwanese project on cancer cell
studies, and others. 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 and “Biophotonics
Riga – 2013” 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 and FP-7 projects.
In parallel
with academic activities, J. Spigulis has been involved in optics-related
businesses. He is co-founder of two companies – SOMTA. Ltd.
(1989) and ANDA OPTEC, Ltd. (1994), where he served as CEO and Board member,
respectively. He has represented the optics industry of Baltic countries
at several SPIE exhibitions in San Jose and San Diego (USA), and currently serves
as a Board member 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 is 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. Spigulis is presiding Latvian regional committee of ICO – International Commission
for Optics and he represents Latvia in the Biophotonics4Life
(BP4L) Worldwide Consortium.
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) and Latvia’s Cabinet
of Ministers Distinction award (2015).
