Peeter Saari

Peeter Saari
Saari at the World Cultural Council award ceremony in Tartu (2011)
Born(1945-06-02)June 2, 1945
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma materUniversity of Tartu
AwardsEstonian National Science Award (2000)

Order of the White Star (III class, 2002)
Honorary Citizen of Tartu (2014)
Estonian National Science Award (lifetime achievement, 2019)

Optica Fellow (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysical optics, Ultrafast optics
InstitutionsUniversity of Tartu

Peeter Saari (born 2 June 1945) is an Estonian physicist whose work spans optical spectroscopy of solids, ultrafast optics and wave optics. He is a professor of wave optics at the University of Tartu and has been a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences since 1986.