The Influence of Calcium Phosphate Structure on the Surface Charge Produced in an Electric Field

Dārta Ūbele-Kalniņa was born in 1990 in Riga. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree (2012) and a Master’s degree in Chemistry (2014) from the University of Latvia. She has worked at the Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy of the University of Latvia and the Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry. Since 2016, she has been with the Faculty of Materials Science and Applied Chemistry of Riga Technical University, initially as a research assistant, but since 2018, as a researcher. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Materials and Surface Engineering of RTU. Her scientific interests are related to the production of calcium phosphate bioceramics, their surface modifications in an electric field, and quantitative determination of hydroxyl ions by FTIR spectrometry using the deconvolution model.