Janis Spigulis graduated as physicist from the University of Latvia (UL) in 1973. He defended his Ph.D. thesis on the collisional energy transfer in metal vapor mixtures in 1979 and obtained the Dr.Habil.Phys. degree in 1993 for research on fiber optics and optoelectronics. In 1997 Spigulis established and still leads the Biophotonics Laboratory at Institute of Atomic Physics and Spectroscopy, UL; over the period 2004-2012 he was director of this institute. He has been promoted as Professor (1998), Fellow of SPIE (2011) and academician of Latvian Academy of Sciences (LAS, 2012), recipient of the Grand Medal of LAS (2021). Recent work of Prof. Spigulis aims at developing novel non-invasive optical methods and devices for applications in healthcare and other areas. He has supervised ~40 research projects with results published in >200 scientific papers and protected by >30 patents. Prof. Spigulis has been invited as keynote lecturer, committee member or session chairman at tens of international conferences.