Kārlis Rācenis Represents RSU in Research Latvia 2023 Calendar and Exhibition

This year will be the sixth time that the Ministry of Education and Science is organising a special exhibition and publishing a calendar to promote scientists and their achievements. The exhibition and calendar tell the story of Latvian researchers, both locally and in the diaspora who come from different generations, branches of science, and different research institutions. Taken together, they showcase the strength and diversity of Latvian science.

Over the years, a number of scientists from Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU) have been selected to represent the University in the Research Latvia 2023 exhibition and calendar. Kārlis Rācenis, a researcher and doctoral student at the Military Medicine Research and Study Centre, and an internist at the Nephrology Centre of Payks Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital, will represent RSU this year.

Research Latvia 2023 covers a wide range of fields: literature, genetics, material science, music, space, virtual reality technologies, military and veterinary medicine, biology, and physics. In addition to Kārlis Rācenis, the exhibition and calendar also feature 11 other scientists and their achievements.

The other featured scientists are

• Anna Kļučņika, PhD, molecular biologist at Laverock Therapeutics in the UK;
• Kristaps Paļskis, Mg. phys., doctoral student in the Riga Technical University (RTU) and the University of Latvia (LU) Particle Physics and Accelerator Technologies study programme, researcher at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research;
• Anda Barkāne, Mg. sc. ing., doctoral student and researcher at the Institute of Polymer Materials of the RTU Faculty of Materials Science and Applied Chemistry;
• Aleksejs Zolotarjovs, Dr. phys., senior researcher at the LU Institute of Solid State Physics, Director of the Laboratory of Optical Materials;
• Ēriks Krūze, Mg. sc. biol., researcher at the Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment BIOR;
• Linda Lancere, Dr. sc. ing., researcher at the Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory of the Socio-Technical Systems Engineering Institute of Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences;
• Zita Kārkla, Dr. philol., literary scholar and critic, researcher at UL Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art;
• Jānis Stāvusis, Dr. biol., geneticist, researcher at the Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre;
• Inese Vārna, Dr. sc. ing., senior researcher at UL Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics;
• Līga Kovaļčuka, Dr. med. vet., Associate Professor and senior researcher at the Clinical Institute of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies;
• Krists Auznieks, DMA, Lecturer at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, composer-in-residence at the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra.

This year, the exhibition is open to the public at Āgenskalns Market until 26 January. Visitors will not only be able to see portraits of the researchers taken by photographer Iveta Gabaliņa, but also watch a three-minute video story about each of the researchers using a QR code. 

The Research Latvia 2023 calendar and exhibition have been created by the Ministry of Education and Science in collaboration with the design service agency Ozols, photographer Iveta Gabaliņa and video director Kristaps Mozgirs within the ERDF project Integrated National Level Measures for Strengthening Interest Representations for Research and Development of Latvia as Part of European Research Area.

Watch videos from previous years’ Latvian Scientists calendars