| 1. Name | Arved-Ervin Sapar |
| 2. Position | senior research associate, head of Department of Astrophysics and head of Group of Theoretical Astrophysics at Tartu Observatory |
| 3. Date of birth | 7.02.1933 |
| 4. Educational
history (university, year) |
Tartu State University, physics, 1957 |
| 5. Research and professional experience, institutional affiliation and postdoctoral research training |
worked at Institute of Physics and Astronomy (1957 - 1973), Institute of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics (1973 - 1995) and Tartu Observatory (since 1995) as junior reseach associate (1957 - 1960, 1963 - 1966), post-graduate student (1960 - 1963), senior reseach associate (1966 - 1968), head of department of theoretical astrophysics (1968 - 1986), head of laboratory of theoretical astrophysics (1986 - 1991), chief reseach associate (1991 - 1995), senior reseach associate and also head of department of astrophysics (since 1993). Starting from 1970 a project manager |
| 6. Academic degrees | Ph.D. of physics and mathematics (at Tartu State University, 1965) D. Sc. of physics and mathematics (at Leningrad State University, 1989), the title of thesis "The non-equilibrium statistical thermodynamics of stellar atmospheres and the study of spectra of hot stars". |
| 7. Honors/awards | professor (1989), member of Estonian Academy of Sciences (1990), medal of Estonian Academy of Sciences (1986) |
| 8. Research administrative experience | head of all-union scientific working group "Physics of Stellar Atmospheres (1976 - 1991), member of Ph. D. promotion council (1976 - 1990), member of organizing committee of IAU commision "Theory of Stellar Atmospheres" (1976 - 1985, 1988 - 1994), co-president of Euroasian Astronomical Society (1989 - 1993) and member of its council (1993 - 1997), editor or editor-in-chief of publications of Tartu Astrophysical Observatory (1965 - 1990), member of editorial board of journal "Baltic Astronomy" (since 1992), co-editor of ASP Conf. Series 204 "Thermal and Ionization Aspects of Flows from Hot Stars: Observations and Theory" (1999). |
| 9. Current research program | theoretical astrophysics ( stellar atmospheres and winds, processing and study of extraterrestrial stellar spectra, physical kinetics for rarefied stellar plasma, cosmology) |
| 10. Dissertations advised | Ph. D. theses: T. Viik, A. Kruusmaa, K. Eerme, E. Saar, T. Feklistova, V. Harvig, M. Ruusalepp, L. Sapar, A. Galdikas; M. Sc. theses : A. Aret, R. Poolamäe |