1. Name: Tõnu Viik
2. Position: Tartu Observatory (TO), senior reasearch associate
3. Date of birth: 12.12.1939
4. Educational history: Viimsi 7-year School (1947-1954), Tallinn II Secondary School
(1954-1958), Tartu University (1958-1963); astronomer
5. Research and professional experience, institutional affiliation and postdoctoral
research training: 06.1963 - 11.1963: Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Estonian
Academy of Sciences (IPA), engineer
11.1963 - 08.1965: Soviet Air Forces
08.1965 - 04.1971: IPA, post-graduate, junior research associate
04.1971 - 11.1976: IPA, scientific secretary - since October 1973 the IPA was reorganized into Institute of Physics and Institute of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics (IAAP), Estonian Academy of Sciences
11.1976 - 07.1985: IAAP, senior research associate,
07.1985 - 06.1999: IAAP, director - in September 1995 IAAP was
renamed Tartu Observatory (TO)
06.1999 - 03.2000: TO, senior research associate, acting vice-director,
03.2000 - 04.2005: TO, vice-director
04.2005 - up today: TO, senior research associate
In addition to that I have given courses of lectures "The basics of theoretical astrophysics" during years 1990, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002 and 2010; "The physics of stars" in 2006 and 2009 and "The physics of the Universe" in 2005, 2007 and 2010. In 2010 I delivered lecture course "The equations of mathematical physics" (all in Tartu University).
6. Academic degrees: PhD in physics and mathematics 1970; DSc in astronomy 1991, Tartu University
7. Honors/awards: Medal of the Estonian Academy of Sciences - 1998,
3rd class Order of the White Star, Estonian Republic - 2000
8. Research-administrative experience - cf. item 5,
Estonian Naturalists' Society - member since 1972, president since 2008
International Astronomical Union (IAU) - member since 1979
IAU – member of the finance-subcommittee (2000-2006)
European Astronomical Society - founding member,1992
Estonian National Committee on Astronomy - member (head 1998-2004)
"Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer" -
member of editorial board since 01.01.1998
Estonian Council of Scientific Competence – vice-chair (2000-2006)
Estonian Science Foundation - vice-chair (2006-2009)
9. Current research program: radiative transfer in astronomy
10. Current grant funding: none
11. Current project funding: Structure, chemical composition and evolution of stars
(TO 0062464s03)
12. Dissertations advised: partly one (R.Rõõm); batchelor, master, PhD dissertations of I.Vurm
13. The most important papers of latelys:
1. Viik, T.: Radiation Field in Rayleigh-Cabannes Scattering Atmosphere. The Non-
conservative Scattering Milne Problem, JQSRT 66, 581-589, 2000.
2. Viik, T.: The Pomraning Phase Function: How Good Is It?, JQSRT 68, 319-326, 2001.
3. Viik, T., McCormick, N.J.: Approximate Polarization Calculations with Scalar Radiative
Transfer Theory, JQSRT 74, 369-375, 2002.
4. Viik, T., McCormick, N.J.: Numerical test of an inverse polarized radiative transfer algorithm,
JQSRT 78, 235-241, 2003.
5. Viik, T., McCormick N.J.: Quadratic integrals in inverse problems with multiple scattering,
G. Videen et al. (eds.), Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing, 125-136, 2004.
6. Viik, T., McCormick N.J.: Polarized radiation deep in an atmosphere, JQSRT 96, 35-43, 2005.
7. Viik, T., Rõõm, R.: Radiation field in a semi-infinite homogeneous atmosphere with internal sources, JQSRT 109, 363-377, 2007.
8. Viik, T.: Radiation field in an optically finite homogeneous atmosphere with internal sources, JQSRT 111, 1418-1425, 2010.