Prof. Habil. Dr. Yuri N. Shunin
Professor, Habil. Dr. and Vice Rector on Academic Issues at Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia and Information Systems Management University, Latvia
Yuri N. Shunin is Professor and Vice-rector on academic issues at Information Systems Management University and a leading researcher at the Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia. He obtained his PhD (physics and maths, solid state physics, 1982) at the Physics Institute of Latvian Academy of Sciences and Dr. Sc. Habil. (physics and maths, solid state physics, 1992) at Saint-Petersburg Physical Technical Institute (Russia). He was the director of NATO ARW “Nanodevices and Nanomaterials for Ecological Security,” Riga, Latvia, 2011. He worked as a visiting researcher at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH, Darmstadt, Germany (1995), INFN—Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati-Roma, Italy (2010 to 2013). His current research activities concern nanophysics, nanoelectronics, nanodevices, nanotechnologies, nanorisks, nanoeducation, and nanothinking in the EU FP7 Projects CATHERINE (2008 to 2011) and CACOMEL (2010 to 2014). His special interests concern carbon nanotubes and graphene systems applications and modeling. He is the author of over 450 scientific papers in international scientific journals and the Editor of one book with Springer.
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