Dr. Karlis Berzins

Biography

Kārlis Bērziņš completed his PhD at the University of Otago in 2021 under the supervision of Professor Keith C. Gordon and Dr. Sara J. Fraser-Miller. His research primarily focuses on materials science, particularly in the field of pharmaceutical solids and advanced emerging drug delivery platforms. He emphasizes the use of low-frequency Raman and Brillouin spectroscopy to probe structure–property relationships and investigate lattice dynamics and mechanical behavior. His core spectroscopic techniques are supplemented by extensive expertise in a broad range of solid-state characterization methods, including WAXS/SAXS, DSC, DTA, DMA, TGA, conventional Raman, and IR spectroscopy. Bērziņš further integrates multivariate chemometric methods with machine learning and deep learning approaches for the analysis and interpretation of complex spectroscopic physicochemical datasets, supported by theoretical simulations through periodic boundary density functional theory (DFT) calculations.

Research Interests