Dekhtyar Yuri (Juri) Davi/ydovich (19/17.06.1947, Riga), scientist, teacher, Corr. member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, professor of RTU.
Yuri Dekhtyar graduated from Riga Industrial Polytechnicum (1965), Faculty of Instrumentation and Automation Engineering of RPI (1971). Later he became Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1982) , habilitated Doctor of Physics (1992), Corresponding Member of Lat. AS (2001), full member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences (2008).
Activity:
1964 -1973. - Designer of the Student Design Bureau and Central Project and Construction bureau,
1973 -1993, junior researcher, senior researcher, Associate Professor, Professor of RPI (RTU).
1994 - 2000 - Director of the Institute of Electrotechnical and Electronic Materials of RTU.
In 2000 Yuri Dekhtyar became Director of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nanotechnologies. He read courses in medical physics, spectroscopy methods in medicine, radiation therapy technology, etc., works with doctoral students. He was elected Professor Emeritus of Zhytomyr State University of Technology (Ukraine).
Studies of nanostructured charged substances and discovery of semiconductor properties of surface layers of bone material allowed Yuri Dekhtyar to create new approaches to understanding the causes of some bone diseases and opened the possibility of developing new principles for determining structural changes in bones over the centuries - for archaeological purposes and creation of new nanostructured biomaterials.
Yuri Dekhtyar is one of the founders of the Latvian Medical Engineering and Physics Society (LMIF), President of the Society (1995-2003), member of the Board and representative of LMIF in the European Federation of Medical Physics Organisations (from 2003). He was member of many international professional societies and expert of a number of European and national expert commissions (European Regional Development Fund, European Nanomed Consortium, Georgian National Science Foundation, Estonian Science Foundation, European Commission FP7, etc.), member of editorial board and reviewer of many professional journals.
Publications: more than 300 scientific papers (including 4 books), author of 24 inventions. Laureate of the State Prize of the LSSR (1989).
Galina Borisovna Shnirman (b. 1956) - wife
Evgenia Dekhtyar (b.1980) - daughter
Darina Dekhtyar - daughter
David Yurievich Dekhtyar (Ukraine) -father.
Riva-Bassa Mendelevna Skop (Latvia, Kraslava) - mother.
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