1. Jaak Aaviksoo was born on 11 January 1954 and is an Estonian politician and physicist, a former rector of the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology.
14 Facts About Jaak Aaviksoo
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Jaak Aaviksoo is the first rector in Estonia who is an academician.
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Jaak Aaviksoo was the first president of the Estonian Physical Society, founded in 1989.
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Jaak Aaviksoo became a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences and thus an academician in 1994.
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From 1981 to 1994 Jaak Aaviksoo worked in many foreign institutes as a guest professor, namely the Novosibirsk Institute of Thermal Physics, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Osaka University and University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot.
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From November 1995 to January 1996 Jaak Aaviksoo was Minister of Culture and Education and from then to November 1997 he was the Estonian Minister of Education in the governments of Tiit Vahi.
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Jaak Aaviksoo was re-elected for another five-year term as a rector in 2003.
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In 2006 Jaak Aaviksoo announced that he would be leaving the post of rector of University of Tartu to run for a seat in the Estonian parliament Riigikogu in the 2007 elections as a member of liberal conservative Union of Pro Patria and Res Publica.
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Jaak Aaviksoo became the Minister of Defence in Andrus Ansip's second government.
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Jaak Aaviksoo saw the Estonian youth's weak will of defending their country as a serious problem.
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Since September 2015 Jaak Aaviksoo is the rector of Tallinn University of Technology.
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Jaak Aaviksoo is a father of three, a grandfather of seven and a great-grandfather of one.
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Jaak Aaviksoo speaks fluent English, German, Russian and French on an average level.
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Jaak Aaviksoo has publicized over 100 scientific articles and over 80 publicistic articles from 1976 to 2002.