Rolands RIKARDS

Professor Rolands RIKARDS

Director 
Institute of Materials and Structures 
Riga Technical University 
Kalku iela 1 
Riga, LV1658 
Latvia 

Phone: +371-708 9124
Fax: +371-708 9254 
Email: rikards@latnet
.lv

 Born: December 15, 1942, Riga, Latvia


 
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Languages: Latvian, English, German, Russian


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Recent/Representative Publications

 Five books and more than 300 articles on mechanics of solids

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European Research Projects

 


Personal

Married. Wife, Baiba Ozola (b. 1948) is Dr. biol. (Latvian Agricultural University). Has two children - Viesturs (b. 1981) and Martins (b. 1988). Hobby - sports (skiing, surfing, canoe on wild rivers). Has passion for  music and painting.  Favorite composers are L. van Beethoven, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Imants Kalnins. Favorite painters are Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso and Rudolfs Pinnis. Favorite dish - fish. Favorite drink - good wine.


 



Last update January 07, 2004