Academic Staff

Current position:  Assistant professor, Engineering Faculty

Experience:

• More than 8 years of academic expereince
• More than 17 years experince in aviation maintenace
• More than 2 years and still ongoing experince at top managment position in aviation business (Airline General Director Technical Maintenance Chief Advisor)

Teaching activity

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

Bachelor level (Aviation engineering Program): Aircraft Maintenace Planning, Aerodynamic & Flight Dynamic; Maintenace of Aircraft; Probeller and its control systems; Human Facotors; Introduction to spiciality

Publication activity: Author\Co-author of 10 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 Master student, 3 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 – Assistant professor

Experience – more than 15 years of experience in transport planning and simulation in the Riga municipality, more than 1 year in academic and research as assistant of professor and lecture 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)

Publication activity – Author/co-author of 11 research publications in journals and conference proceedings (indexed in SCOPUS/WoS).

Projects – for the last years participated in more than 2 international projects (Horizon2020, INTERREG): ALLIANCE project (https://alliance-project.eu/) – participant, SUMBA (https://sumba.eu/) – project coordinator

Supervised theses – 2 master level thesis supervision with successful defence

Research fields/domains – simulation modelling, sustainable transportation, mobility

Awards – ALLIANCE PROJECT. Scientific Excellence Award 2018

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”

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”.