Arturs Medvids

Arturs Medvids, optics and spectroscopy physicist, graduated from Physics department of Kiev State University, Ukraine, in 1968. He worked for Institute of Semiconductor Physics of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences 1959-1969. In 1994 obtained the degree Dr. habil. Phys., with specialization: Solid State Physics at Latvian University, Riga. Since 1989 he has been the head of Laboratory of Semiconductor Physics at Riga Technical University and since 1995 - Professor at the Institute of Technical Physics of Riga Technical University. In 2001 and 2017 he worked in Japan as an invited professor in Shizuoka University. He was awarded the title of Honourable guest professor of Shizuoka University, Japan, in 2009, 2014 and 2016. He has published more than 172 scientific publications in Scopus, 5 books and 100 patents.