Jaak Aaviksoo

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Date and place of birth: 11. January 1954, Tartu

Education
1981 Candidate of Physics-Mathematics, Physics Institute of Estonian Academy of Sciences
1976 University of Tartu, Faculty of Physics and Chemistry, Theoretical Physics cum laude
1971 Tartu Secondary School No 2

Career
April 2011 - present Minister of Education and Research
2011 Member of 12th Riigikogu
2007 - 2011 Minister of Defence
2007 Member of 11th Riigikogu
1998 – 2007 Rector of the University of Tartu
12.1996 – 5.1998 Head of the Institute of Experimental Physics and Technology of the University of Tartu
01.1996 – 11.1996 Minister of Education
11.1995 – 12.1995 Minister of Culture and Education
07.1992 – 11.1995 The first pro-rector of the University of Tartu
10 – 11.1995 Substitute Head of the Institute of Experimental Physics and Technology of the University of Tartu
Since 1992 Professor of optics and spectroscopy in the University of Tartu
1976 – 1992 Junior, senior and lead researcher at the Institute of Physics of Estonian Academy of Sciences

Further education
1991, 1994, 2001 The VII University of Paris
1991 University of Osaka
1987 – 1988, 1989 Max Planck Institute for the research of solids, Stuttgart
1981 Novosibirsk Institute of Thermal Physics

Foreign languages: English, Russian, German; French at a satisfactory level

Party: Pro Patria and Res Publica Union