Prof. Juris Purans
 | Prof. Juris Purans |
| Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia | |
Beyond quasiharmonic approximation: local structure of perovskites with negative thermal expansion  | |
Juris Purans received his PhD from the University of Latvia (UL) in 1980 "EPR of disordered solid state materials" and his habilitation from the ISSP UL in 1993 "XAFS Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Oxides". Since 1993, he is a head of the EXAFS laboratory at the ISSP UL in Riga (www.dragon.lv/exafs). J. Purans was qualified to the list of Professors of Universities of France and Italy. He worked for many times at the synchrotron radiation facilities ADONE/DAFNA (ITALY), LURE-SOLEIL (France) as a beam-line scientist, as well as invited professor - Universities of France, Italy and Switzerland. J. Purans has 30 years of experience and published more than 200 papers on studies of functional materials using synchrotron radiation at the ESRF (Grenoble), LURE-SOLEIL (Orsay), HASYLAB (Hamburg), ADONE/DAFNA - ELLETRA (ITALY). He is the author/coauthor of 270 papers and 2 review articles on synchrotron radiation EXAFS studies, as well as RAMAN, EPR and XRD. His H-index is 23, with 1500 citations (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/E-8443-2010). His laboratory has recently developed EXAFS experiments with unprecedented (femtometer 10-5 Å) accuracy and nanometer scale (50 nm) lateral resolution (FP6 STRP project “X-TIP”). 2013-2016 - head of Latvian National grant "XAFS studies of functional materials with femtometer accuracy" Latvian Council of Science; 2010-2013 - Head of Latvian EU regional development grant ERAF-088 "Innovative glass coatings" VIAA. Since 2013, he is a Full member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. FOREIGN LANGUAGES - Italian, English, French, Russian, German. |