Jaak Aaviksoo#

Present and Previous Positions

• 2015 – Rector of the Tallinn University of Technology
• 2015 member of the XIII composition of the parliament of Estonia
• 2011 – 2014 Minister of Education and Research
• 2011 member of the XII composition of the parliament of Estonia
• 2007 – 2011 Minister of Defence
• 2007 member of the XI composition of the parliament of Estonia
• 2003 – 2007 Rector of the University of Tartu
• 1998 – 2003 Rector of the University of Tartu
• 1996 – 1998 Head of the Institute of Experimental Physics and Technology of the University of Tartu
• 1996 – 1996 Minister of Education
• 1995 – 1995 Minister of Culture and Education
• 1992 – 1995 the first Vice-Rector of the University of Tartu
• 1992 – 2015 Professor of optics and spectroscopy at the University of Tartu
• 1981 – 1994 worked as a guest professor at the Novosibirsk Institute of Thermal Physics (Russia), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Germany), Osaka University (Japan) and University of Paris VI (France)
• 1976 – 1992 junior, senior and leading research scientist at the Institute of Physics of the Estonian Academy of Sciences

• Physics
• Politics

• 1994 Academician at the Estonian Academy of Sciences
• 2000 Order of Merit of the National Coat of Arms, class IV
• 2000 Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2000 Medal of the University of Tokyo
• 2002 Medal of the City of Tartu
• 2003 Honorary Doctor of the University of Turku
• 2004 member of the Academia Europea
• 2006 Order of the White Rose of Finland
• 2006 Order of Merit of the White Star, II class
• 2007 Cross of Merit of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, III class
• 2007 National Order of Merit of France
• 2009 Order of the Three Stars of the Republic of Latvia
• 2011 Estonian Defence League White Cross, I class
• 2012 Honorary Doctor of the University of Lapland

Curriculum Vitae

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