Academic CentreHead: associated professor Tija Sīle
E-mail: tija.sile@lu.lv
The Department of Physics provides academic physics degree programmes at bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels. The Department comprises five Chairs.
Head: professor Mārcis Auziņš
E-mail: marcis.auzins@lu.lv
Research areas: atomic and molecular physics, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, laser physics, biomedical optics, physics didactics.
Head: professor Andrejs Cēbers
E-mail: andrejs.cebers@lu.lv
Research interests: soft materials physics, biological physics, hydrodynamics, quantum mechanics. Research in soft materials physics is related to the development of micro-devices controlled by electromagnetic fields.
Head: associated professor Tija Sīle
E-mail: tija.sile@lu.lv
Research areas - fluid and gas mechanics, thermal and molecular physics, magnetic physics, engineering physics, solid mechanics. Theoretical research is based on the extensive use of computer modelling techniques, a multi-core set of parallel algorithms has been developed for large-scale computations.
Head: associated professor Anatolijs Šarakovskis
E-mail: anatolijs.sarakovskis@lu.lv
Research areas: solid state physics, materials physics, disordered matter physics, glass physics, holography. The Department provides training courses in solid state and materials physics, promotes cooperation between the Physics Department and the Institute of Solid State Physics as a base for scientific work of students and lecturers.
Head: docent Inese Dudareva
E-mail: inese.dudareva@lu.lv
The aim of the Chair is to provide, develop and disseminate effective and research-based physics education and to train and develop physics education professionals.
Other units in the Department:
Head: Andris Guļāns
E-mail: andris.gulans@lu.lv
The Electron Structure Group is a scientific association based at the Department of Physics, which, in collaboration with the Nanoelectronics Theory Group, conducts research in the following areas:
First-principles methods;
Computational materials science;
Theory of nanoscale electronic devices;
Physics of quantum computing.
The current research interests of the Electron Structures Group are:
Linearised augmented plane waves (LAPW);
Many-body perturbation theory;
Relativity in DFT calculations.
Website: www.quantumtheory.lu.lv
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