Andris Sternbergs

Andris Sternbergs is Dr.habil.phys since 1999 and Full member of the Latvian Academy of Science since 2005, and Member of its Senate since 2017. He was Head of the Laboratory of Electrooptics (1982-1984), Head of the Department of Ferroelectric Physics (1984 – 1998) and Director of the Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia (1999 – 2016). He got the Medal of the Baltic Academies of Sciences in 2013 and the Grand Medal of Latvian Academy of Sciences for development and studies of new functional materials and promotion of nanotechnology in 2015. His main research areas are on Ferroelectrics: structure ordering and phase transitions in perovskite compounds; properties and application; Radiation effects on ferroelectric materials; Processing and properties of ferroelectric thin films and heterostructures; Design of materials for tentative application in fusion facilities. On these topics he has some 270 publications. At present he is Deputy Director for Research Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia at Riga.