Academic Staff

Current position: Associate professor, Director of Aviation Engineering Program Engineering Faculty

Experience:

• More than 11 years of academic experience
• More than 28 years’ experience in aviation maintenance
• More than 5 years’ experience at top management position in aviation business (Airline General Director Technical Maintenance Chief Advisor)
• More than 2 years’ experience as Airline CAMO Manager (Technical Director)

Teaching activity

Master level (Aviation Managment Program): Management of Aviation Maintenace

Bachelor level (Aviation engineering Program): Compliance Monitoring System, Aircraft Maintenace Planning, Aerodynamic & Flight Dynamic; Maintenace of Aircraft; Propeller and its control systems; Human Factors; Introduction to specialty

Publication activity: Author/Co-author of 18 research publications in journals and conference proceedings (incl. SCOPUS&WoS)

Projects: Horizon 2020 “Enhancing excellence and innovation capacity in sustainable transport interchange – ALLIANCE”

Supervised theses: 1 PhD student, 5 Master students, 8 Bachelor students

Research fields/domains: February 2019 got my PhD degree “INVESTIGATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GROUND HANDLING VEHICLES ON THE AIRCRAFT HANDLING DURATION”

Motto: Quality is not an act, it’s a habit

Hobby: Mushroom picking

Current position – Asoc. Professor

Experience – more than 15 years of experience in transport planning and simulation in the Riga municipality, more than 5 years in academic and research as a lecturer in TSI Certified specialist in using EMME software (traffic flow simulation).

Membership – Member of the Latvian Simulation and Modelling Society, Association “WOMEN IN TRANSPORT”

Teaching activity – Geography of Transport Systems (4ECTS, master level), Decision-Making Methodologies (2ECTS, master level), Sustainable Transport Interchanges (6ECTS, master level) and Procurement and reserve logistics (2ECTS, bachelor level).

Publication activity – Author/co-author of more than 17 research publications in journals and conference proceedings (indexed in SCOPUS/WoS).

Supervised theses – more than five master-level thesis supervision with the successful defence

Research fields/domains – simulation modelling, sustainable transportation, mobility, urban transport planning.

Motto – Don’t give up

Current position – docent, Dr.sc.ing., TSI/APAC Part-147 quality manager.

Experience  – Associate Professor at RKIIGA (1987-1992), Quality Manager for the  Wings 4 Sky Group Maintenance Organisation (1995- present), Head of the Wings 4 Sky Group Maintenance Organisation (2013-present)

Teaching activity – Human Factors, Aviation Legislation, Aircraft Avionics Systems, Aircraft Electrical Equipment, Airport Operations Management, Aviation Safety Management System, Maintenance Provision.  All programs are bachelor’s level.

Supervised theses – 13 Bachelos,  

Research fields/domains – aircraft systems diagnostics, development of the quality system elements for an aircraft maintenance organizations, refinement of sports aircrafts design.

Motto – “Before making a decision – think.  It is necessary to make decisions”

Current position:  Assistant Professor, Dr.sc.ing., Engineering faculty  

Experience: for more than 6 years was lecturer and researcher in engineering Faculty, Department in Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI), also lecturer and researcher at aerospace and aviation engineering institute in (RTU) Riga technical university.

Teaching activity:  Courses in aviation, Aircraft Engines and design, Aircraft gas liquid systems, aircraft structure, Reliability engineering, Material Engineering, Physics and Engineering modeling and simulation at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

Publication activity: Author/Co-author of 8 publications in journals, and conference proceedings (incl. SCOPUS & WoS) 

Participation in projects: has participated as a researcher in 2 Europe research projects first one (Development of an Innovative Supersonic Aerodynamic Tunnel and Aerospace Object Research Methodology). Second one (Design and development of an aerodynamically efficient unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)implementing an environmentally friendly 4R circular economy concept in aviation (4R-UAV)).

Supervised Theses:  13 Bachelor theses.

Research fields/domains: Computational Fluid dynamics, Modeling and simulation, Robotics, Mathematical modelling, numerical methods, UAVs and others. 

Hobby: Drawing.

Motto: “Never gave up”

Academic degree and current position in TSI: Lector of Transport and Management Faculty.

Previous experience: 15 years’ experience in Higher Education at Transport and Telecommunication Institute.

Teaching activity: Microeconomics (6ECTS, bachelor level), Macroeconomics (6ECTS, bachelor level), Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship (6ECTS, bachelor level), Marketing (6ECTS, bachelor level), Management and Organization Theory (3ECTS, bachelor level), Essentials of Business Management (6ECTS, bachelor level), Study Project I (3ECTS, bachelor level).

Supervised theses: Supervision of the Bachelor’s Theses (27 Bachelor of Social Sciences in Management)

Research fields/domains: Strategic Management, Economics.

Motto: “Everything happens for a reason”.