Prof. Dr Kurt Schwartz

Kurt Schwartz, born 27.04.1930 in Riga, Latvia. From 1949 to 1954 physics studies at the Latvian State University.Ph.D.1969 at the University of Tartu (Luminescence efficiency of doped alkali halides).Habilitation in 1970 at the P. Lebedev Physical Institute (FIAN), Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Radio-luminescence and radiation damage of alkali halides). Member of Latvian Academy of Sciences (1991; Award of the Latvian Academy of Sciences for radiation damage studies (2010)).

Scientific and pedagogical activities

From 1957 to 1961 assistant professor at the Department of Physics, Latvian State University. From 1961 to 1991 head of the Radiation Physics Labor, Institute of Physics, Latvian Academy of Sciences. From 1974 to1985 also professor at the Department of Physics of the Engineering Institute of Civil Aviation (Riga).

From 1992 in Germany. From 1992 to 1994 visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg. From 1994 up to now senior scientist at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Materials Research Department.

Scientific cooperation

Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia; Institute o Physics, University of Tartu; Institute of Nuclear Physics, Astana, Kazakhstan; L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan; Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia; Technical University Darmstadt, Germany..

Research Interests: solid state physics, optical spectroscopy, radiation damage in dielectric materials, optical recording materials, radiation detectors.

Publications: more than 250 including 5 monographs.