Prof. Martins Rutkis

	Prof. Martins Rutkis
	Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
	Development of NLO Active Organic Molecular Glasses for Photonic Applications
	Data Of Birth: August 8, 1957, Riga, Latvia Nationality: Latvian Occupation: Deputy Director for Research, Head of Laboratory of Organic materials and Senior Researcher at Institute of Solid State Physics University of Latvia; Member of Expert Commission of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Latvian Council of Science Associated member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences Education: 1992 Dr.phys from the Institute of Physical Energetics, Latvian Academy of Sciences; 1990 Candidate of Science (equivalent of Ph.D.) from the University of Latvia; 1982 – 1987 Post Graduate Student at University of Latvia, Department of Physics; 1975 – 1982 Student at University of Latvia, Department of Physics Number of Publications: 188 Publications in scientific journals and proceedings of conferences Research Interests: Optical and Electrical Properties of Organic Substances Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Substances; Photonics of polymer composites; Structure and Spectroscopy of Organic Substances; Quantum chemical and molecular mechanical modelling Member of: Optical Society of America (OSA); American Chemical Society (ACS); Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC); Editorial board of “Optics and Photonics Journal”