Niels Asger Mortensen is an associate professor (since 2004) at the Technical University of Denmark from where he also received the MSc, PhD, and Dr. Techn. degrees in 1998, 2001, and 2005, respectively. .. read more

Dept. of Photonics Engineering

DTU Fotonik
Technical University of Denmark
 

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Personal data:

• Name: Niels Asger Mortensen
• Date and place of birth: May 6, 1973, Hillerød, Denmark
• Citizenship: Denmark.
• Marital status: Married ('99), two children ('01, '05).
  
  

Education & Academic degrees:

• Baccalaureate in natural sciences, Sorø Akademis Skole (Jun. '92)
• M.Sc. in Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (Sep. '98)
• Ph.D. in theoretical physics, Technical University of Denmark (Aug. '01)  
• Dr. techn., Technical University of Denmark (May '06)                                [ PhD family tree ]
  
  

Employment:

• Jun. '08 - present: Associate Professor (tenure),
  Dept. of Photonics Engineering, Tech. Univ. of Denmark
  • Jun. '08 - present: Group leader, Structured Electromagnetic Materials
  • Jun. '08 - present: WP leader (theory), NATEC VKR Centre of Excellence
• Jul. '05 - May '08: Associate Professor (tenure),
  Dept. of Micro and Nanotechnology, Tech. Univ. of Denmark
  • Jan. '06 - May '08: Group leader
• Mar. '04 - Jun. '05: Associate Professor (STVF-26-03-0073),
  Dept. of Micro and Nanotechnology, Tech. Univ. of Denmark
• Sep. '01 - Feb. '04: Research Scientist, Crystal Fibre A/S.
• Aug. / Sep. '01: Research Assistant, Mikroelektronik Centret, Tech. Univ. of Denmark
• Feb. '99 - Aug. '01: Ph.D. Fellow,  Tech. Univ. of Denmark
  
  • Feb. '99 - Aug. '01: Mikroelektronik Centret, Tech. Univ. of Denmark
  • Feb. '99 - Aug. '01: Ørsted Lab., Niels Bohr Inst., Univ. of Copenhagen
  • Oct. '00 - Dec. '00: Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden
• Oct. '98 - Feb. '99: Research Assistant, Mikroelektronik Centret, Tech. Univ. of Denmark
• Feb. '98 - May '98: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Physics, Tech. Univ. of Denmark
• Sep. '97 - Dec. '97: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Physics, Tech. Univ. of Denmark
  
  

Honors and Awards:

• DTU Ph.D. Fellowship 1998 from Technical University of Denmark
• Ingeniørvidenskabelig Fond og G. A. Hagemanns Mindefond (’00)
• The European Optics Prize 2004 from the European Optical Society
• Strategic Program for Young Researchers 2005

• Statoil-prisen 2007  

• Young Elite Researcher's Award 2007

• Young Researcher Participant in the 58th Meeting of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics, Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

• The European Optics Prize 2008 from the European Optical Society
  
  

Travel grants: 

NorFa travel grant (’98) [~10.000 DDK]
NorFa travel grant (’99) [~10.000 DDK]
Ingeniørvidenskabelig Fond og G. A. Hagemanns Mindefond (’00) [25.000 DKK]
MPI-visitors program, Max-Planck Institute, Dresden (‘00) [~1500 DM]
Corrit-fondens rejselegat (’06) [10.000 DDK]
CUDOS-visitors program, Univ. Sydney (’08) [~1200 AUD]

Equipment grants: 

• Ib Henriksens fond (’07) [75.000 DDK, with M. Brandbyge]
  
  

Research grants, principal investigator:

• Strategic Program for Young Researchers, Danish Council for Strategic Research (‘05)
  "Theory of opto-nanofluidic Lab-on-a-chip systems"
  [DSF grant #2117-05-0037, ~2.7 MDKK]
  
• Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences (’07)
  "Theory of chiral-liquid optofluidics for lab-on-a-chip applications in bio-chemistry and pharmacology"
  [FTP grant #274-07-0080, ~1.9 MDDK] 
  
  

Research grants, co-applicant:

• Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences (’06)
  "Photonic crystal refractive index detection for nanofluidic chemical separation systems"
  [FTP grant #274-06-0193, ~4.5 MDKK, with J.P. Kutter]
  
• Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences (’06)
  "Toplogy Optimization of Electromagmetic Metamaterials for Miniaturization of Wireless Communication Antennas (TopAnt)"
  [FTP grant #274-06-0507, ~4.9 MDKK, with O. Breinbjerg and O. Sigmund]
  
• Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (’07)
  "Wireless coupling in small autonomous devices"
  [HTF grant #004-2007-1, ~10 MDKK, total budget ~22 MDDK, with L. Lading, L. Højslet Christensen, J. Vestergaard, O. Breinbjerg, and O. Sigmund]
  
• Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation (’08)
  Center of Excellence "NAnophotonics for TErabit Communications"
  [VKR grant, ~25MDKK, with J. Mørk et al.]
  
  

Memberships:

• Danish Physical Society (DFS)
• Danish Optical Society (DOPS)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• Optical Society of America (OSA)
• European Optical Society (EOS)
• The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
• The Danish Society of Engineers (IDA) 
  
  

Conference & meeting activities:

• Organizer of institute colloqiua (Dept. of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, 2006)
• Member of local organizing committee, IXX International Workshop on Optical Waveguide Theory and Numerical Modelling (Technical University of Denmark, April 27-28, 2007).
  
  

Peer-review journal referee for:

• Physical Review Letters (APS)
• Physical Review B (APS)
• Applied Physics Letters (AIP)
• Analytical Chemistry (ACS)
• Optics Letters (OSA)
• Optics Express (OSA)
• Journal of Optical Society of America A (OSA)
• Journal of Optical Society of America B (OSA)
• Journal of Lightwave Technology (OSA/IEEE)
• Photonics Technology Letters (IEEE)
• IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (IEEE)
• IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (IEEE)
• Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (IOP)
• Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics (IOP/EOS)
• Journal of European Optical Society, Rapid Publications (EOS)
• Optics Communications (Elsevier Science)
• Optics & Laser Technology (Elsevier Science)  
• Superlattices and Microstructures (Elsevier Science)
• Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (Springer Verlag)
• Optical and Quantum Electronics (Springer Verlag)
  
  

Preprint archive arXiv.org, qualified to endorse for:

• physics.optics
• physics.flu-dyn
• cond-mat
  
  

Grant-proposal reviewer for:

• United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
• The Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences (FTP)
• Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
• Hercules Stichting 
  
  

Research publications & citation statistics:

• 80+ scientific papers published in international peer-review journals
• 25+ papers published in proceedings of international conferences, meetings, and workshops
• 3 invited book chapters
• 2 popularizing papers
• 4 academic dissertations
• Citations: 1000+ (Web of Science, October 19, 2008)
• Hirsch h-index: 21 (Web of Science, October 19, 2008)