Associate Professor in history of science
Director of the Centre for Science Studies at the Estonian University of Life Sciences and history of geography at the Tartu University.
He is author of different articles on the history of Russian polar research in the 19th century and general problems in the history of polar regions. He is author of a monograph on A. Th. v. Middendorff (2015) and on the history of Tartu University (2023) in the 20th century.
Erki Tammiksaar will give a lecture on „The Physical Geography of the North Polar Sea, Baltic German Polar Research and Russian Empire in the 19th century” as a part of the Jean Malaurie guest lecture series at the Malaurie Institute of Arctic Research Monaco-UVSQ on 21 January 2025, 13:00, UVSQ/ University Paris Saclay, Bâtiment d'Alembert, 11 boulevard d'Alembert, 78280 Guyancourt (France).
The mobility is financed by the Erasmus Programme of the European Union.
© Erki Tammiksaar
