Algis Jurgis Kundrotas (15 July 1950 – 6 May 2026) was a Lithuanian physicist, habilitated doctor of physical sciences, university professor and independent researcher.
Background Kundrotas was born on 15 July 1950 in Užšustis, Šilutė district, Lithuanian SSR. He went to Vilnius Pedagogical Institute from 1968 to 1972 where he obtained his diploma cum laude in physics. He completed his subsequent studies in Vilnius at the Semiconductor Physics Institute from 1976 to 1979 and became a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences (Doctor of Natural Sciences; Ph.D. degree) in 1981, when he defended his dissertation at Vilnius University (thesis on: Investigation of kinetic processes in narrow gap semiconductor PtSb2). He became a doctor of physical sciences in Vilnius Semiconductor Physics Institute in 1999 (thesis on: Impact ionisation of shallow impurities and excitons in A3B5 semiconductors and quantum wells).
He was married to Bronislava (Tamašauskaitė) Kundrotienė, who graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Vilnius. She gave birth to 3 children; daughters Monika Granja (born 1974), Agne Johannessen (born 1977), and a son Benas Kundrotas (born 1978). Kundrotas died on 6 May 2026, at the age of 75.In Memoriam. Algis Jurgis Kundrotas (1950–2026)
Career From 1980 to 2015, Kundrotas worked at the Semiconductor Physics Institute. From 1980 to 1986, he was a Junior Research Associate and from 198 to 1987, a Research Associate. He became a Senior Research Associate from 1987 to 2000. In 2001, he was appointed Chief Researcher, a position he held until 2010. From 2010 until the end of his career in 2015, Kundrotas was a Senior Researcher at the Semiconductor Physics Institute of Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC).
Kundrotas started his university teaching career as a university professor in 2002 at Gediminas Technical University in Vilnius, Lithuania, where he was employed at the Physics Department from 2002 to 2015. He lectured in the field of mathematical modelling of physical processes for Master's students. From 2009, he was Certificated Professor of physical sciences of the Vilnius Gediminas' Technical University. After finishing his professional scientific career in 2015, he has also been working as an independent scientific researcher with main scientific field in physics of semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures.Item: Algis Jurgis Kundrotas. IN: Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia, Volume: XI ( ... ) - Vilnius: Institute for Scientific and Encyclopaedic Publications; 2007; 262 pages.
Awards In 2000, he was awarded the Lithuanian National Award in Science. In March 2001, he was awarded along with Professor Adolf Dargis and Dr. Neria Žurauskienė the National Award for Merit in Physical Sciences for the year 2000 for the series of papers Shock and Tunnel Ionization in Semiconductors.
Selected bibliography
A micro-calculator for work and leisure (, 1986)
Jurgis Kundrotas. (GaAs/AlGaAs properties), (Institute of Semiconductor Physics), Vilnius (2001) 168 pages
Benas Kundrotas, Algis Jurgis Kundrotas. Modern Car Handbook. Vilnius (2020); 242 pages;
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Overview of scientific publications of Algis Jurgis Kundrotas Habil. Dr. A. Kundrotas – Lithuanian Union of Scientists (Lithuanian)