Prof. Marco Kirm

Marco Kirm is a Professor in Experimental Physics in the Institute of Physics. He graduated cum laude as a physicist from University of Tartu in 1991, followed by PhD degree at Lund University in 1995. He is a member of Estonian Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of Latvian Academy of Sciences and a member of the International Advisory Board of Institute of Solid State Physics at Latvian University in Riga. Nationally he is active in the management in of the Estonian roadmap objects of research infrastructures: NAMUR+ (Centre of Nanomaterials Technologies and Research) and FinEstBeAMS (Estonian Beamline at MAX-IV Synchrotron Radiation Source), which is an Estonian cooperation platform with the MAX IV Lab in Lund, Sweden. He is a spokesperson of the Estonian-Finnish beamline FinEstBeAMS. 

His research interests cover wide range of novel functional wide gap materials (incl. nano-materials) applicable as scintillators and LED phosphors. He is also carrying out research on basic phenomena in optical materials such as relaxation processes of electronic excitations and their dynamics by luminescence spectroscopy in wide time, temperature and energy range; ultrafast radiative processes (applications in PET tomography). 

Currently he is leading the EC TWINNING project EXANST “Increasing Excellence in Utilizing X-ray Research and Neutron Scattering Techniques at the University of Tartu” 2024-2027.