N. Asger Mortensen is a professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) from where he also received the MSc, PhD, and Dr. Techn. degrees in 1998, 2001, and 2006, respectively. .. read more

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Personal data:

• Full name: Niels Asger Mortensen
• Date and place of birth: May 6, 1973, Hillerød, Denmark
• Citizenship: Denmark.
• Marital status: Married (1999), two children (2001, 2005).
  
  

Education & Academic degrees:

• Baccalaureate in natural sciences, Sorø Akademis Skole (Jun. 1992)
• M.Sc. in Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (Sep. 1998)
• Ph.D. in theoretical physics, Technical University of Denmark (Aug. 2001)  
• Dr. techn., Technical University of Denmark (May 2006)                                [ PhD family tree ]
  
  

Employment:

• Mar. 2011 - present: Professor (full), Dept. of Photonics Eng., DTU
  • Jun. 2008 - present: Group leader, Dept. of Photonics Eng., DTU
  • Feb. 2012 - present: WP leader (plasmonics), CNG - DNRF Centre of Excellence
  • Jun. 2008 - present: WP leader (theory), NATEC VKR Centre of Excellence
• Jun. 2008 - Mar. 2011: Assoc. Prof. (tenure), Dept. of Photonics Eng., DTU
• Jul. 2005 - May 2008: Associate Professor (tenure), Dept. of Micro and Nanotechnology, DTU
  • Jan. 2006 - May 2008: Group leader, Dept. of Micro and Nanotechnology, DTU
• Mar. 2004 - Jun. 2005: Associate Professor, Dept. of Micro and Nanotechnology, DTU
• Sep. 2001 - Feb. 2004: Research Scientist, Crystal Fibre A/S.
• Aug. / Sep. 2001: Research Assistant, Mikroelektronik Centret, DTU
• Feb. 1999 - Aug. 2001: Ph.D. Fellow,  DTU
  
  • Feb. 1999 - Aug. 2001: Mikroelektronik Centret, DTU
  • Feb. 1999 - Aug. 2001: Ørsted Lab., Niels Bohr Inst., Univ. of Copenhagen
  • Oct. 2000 - Dec. 2000: Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden
• Oct. 1998 - Feb. 1999: Research Assistant, Mikroelektronik Centret, DTU
• Feb. 1998 - May 1998: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Physics, DTU
• Sep. 1997 - Dec. 1997: Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Physics, DTU
  
  

Honors and Awards:

• DTU Ph.D. Fellowship from Technical University of Denmark (1998)
• Ingeniørvidenskabelig Fond og G. A. Hagemanns Mindefond (2000)
• The European Optics Prize 2004 from the European Optical Society (2004)
• 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 (2008)

• The European Optics Prize 2008 from the European Optical Society (2008)

•  'Best presentation award', "Nanostructured Thin Films IV" (SPIE Optics+Photonics, 2011)

• SPIE Senior Member distinction (SPIE, 2012)
  
  

Travel grants: 

NorFa travel grant (1998) [~10.000 DKK]
NorFa travel grant (1999) [~10.000 DKK]
Ingeniørvidenskabelig Fond og G. A. Hagemanns Mindefond (2000) [25.000 DKK]
MPI-visitors program, Max-Planck Institute, Dresden (2000) [~1500 DM]
Corrit-fondens rejselegat (2006) [10.000 DKK]
CUDOS-visitors program, Univ. Sydney (2008) [~1200 AUD]

Equipment grants: 

• Ib Henriksens fond (2007) [75.000 DDK, with M. Brandbyge]
  
  

Research grants, principal investigator:

• Strategic Program for Young Researchers, Danish Council for Strategic Research (2005-2009)
  "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 (2007-2011)
  "Theory of chiral-liquid optofluidics for lab-on-a-chip applications in bio-chemistry and pharmacology"
  [FTP grant #274-07-0080, ~1.9 MDKK] 
  
• Sino-Danish Scientific and Technological Cooperation
  Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation  (2010-2011)
  [grant #09-075623, ~200.000 DKK, network activity with Prof. Sailing He, Zhejiang Univ.]
  
• Sino-Danish Scientific and Technological Cooperation
  Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation  (2012)
  [grant #11-120370, ~155.000 DKK, network activity with Prof. Hongxing Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences + Prof. Linfang Shen, Zhejiang Univ.]
  
• Two-year Postdoctoral  Block Stipend, Willum Foundation (2013-2014)
  "Quantum Plasmonics"
  [grant #341/300-123012, ~1.1 MDKK]
  
  

Research centers, co-applicant and key-investigator:

• Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation (2008-2013)
  Center of Excellence "NAnophotonics for TErabit Communications"
  [VKR grant, ~25 MDKK, with Prof. J. Mørk et al.]
  

• Danish National Research Foundation (2011-2017)
  Center of Excellence "Nanostructured Graphene"
  [DNRF grant, ~54 MDKK, with Prof. A.-P. Jauho et al.]
  
  

Research grants, co-applicant:

• Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences (2006-2009)
  "Photonic crystal refractive index detection for nanofluidic chemical separation systems"
  [FTP grant #274-06-0193, ~4.5 MDKK, with Prof. J.P. Kutter]
  
• Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences (2006-2010)
  "Toplogy Optimization of Electromagmetic Metamaterials for Miniaturization of Wireless Communication Antennas (TopAnt)"
  [FTP grant #274-06-0507, ~4.9 MDKK, with Prof. O. Breinbjerg and Prof. O. Sigmund]
  
• Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (2007-2011)
  "Wireless coupling in small autonomous devices"
  [HTF grant #004-2007-1, ~10 MDKK, with Dr. L. Lading et al.]
  
• Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences (2010-2013)
  "Separation of Macromolecules by Photonic Crystal Defects Chromatography (PCDC)"
  [FTP grant #10-082409, ~5.5 MDKK, with Prof. O. Hassager]
  
• Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (2010-2013)
  "NanoPlast - advanced technology platform"
  [HTF grant #007-2010-2, ~50 MDKK, with Prof. R. Taboryski et al. ]
  
• Sino-Danish Scientific and Technological Cooperation
  Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (2011)
  [grant #10-098282, ~280.000 DKK, with Prof. A. Lavrinenko, network activity Prof. Lei Zhou, Fudan Univ. + Prof. C.T. Chan, HKUST]
  
  
  

Memberships:

• Danish Physical Society (DFS)
• 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)
• Program committee, Nanostructured Thin Films V, SPIE Optics + Photonics (2012)
• Program committee, Nanostructured Thin Films VI, SPIE Optics + Photonics (2013)
• Sub-committee, The 34th PIERS in Stockholm (2013)
• Advisory & Program committee, ICMAP 2013 - International Conference on Microwave & Photonics (2013)
  
  
  

Editorial work:

• Associate Editor for Optics Express (May 2010 - present) 
  
  

Peer-review journal referee for:

• Physical Review Letters (APS)
• Physical Review B (APS)
• Science (AAAS) 
• Nature Materials (NPG)
• Scientific Reports (NPG) 
• Applied Physics Letters (AIP)
• Biomicrofluidics (AIP) 
• ACS Nano (ACS)
• Analytical Chemistry (ACS)
• Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (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 Photonics Journal (IEEE)
• IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (IEEE)
• IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (IEEE) 
• IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (IEEE)
• Reports on Progress in Physics (IOP)
• Journal of Optics (IOP) 
• 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)
• Journal of Nanophotonics (SPIE)
• Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry (Elsevier Science) 
• Optical Fiber Technology (Elsevier Science)   
• Optics Communications (Elsevier Science)
• Optics & Laser Technology (Elsevier Science)  
• Physica E (Elsevier Science)
• Superlattices and Microstructures (Elsevier Science)
• Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical (Elsevier Science)
• Chaos, Solitons & Fractals (Elsevier Science) 
• Applied Physics A (Springer Verlag)
• Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics (Springer Verlag) 
• Microfluidics and Nanofluidics (Springer Verlag)
• Optical and Quantum Electronics (Springer Verlag)
• International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves (Springer Verlag)
• Progress in Electromagnetic Research (PIERS)
• Journal of Electromagnetics Waves and Applications (PIERS)
• Revista Mexicana de Física (Sociedad Mexicana de Física)
• Journal of Modern Optics (Taylor & Francis)
• Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Cambridge Univ. Press)
  
  

Grant-proposal reviewer for:

• United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation - BSF (2007)
• The Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences - FTP (2007)
• Israel Science Foundation - ISF (2008, 2010)
• Hercules Stichting (2008)
• Swiss National Science Foundation (2008) 

• F.R.S.-FNRS Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013) 

• Deanship of Scientific Research, King Fahd University of Petrol and Minerals (2011, 2012)

• Belgian Science Policy Office - BELSPO (2012)

• The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey - TUBITAK (2012)

• The Romanian National Council for Scientific Research (2012)

• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences/Wallenberg Foundation (2012)

• Israel Strategic Alternative Energy Foundation  -  I-SAEF (2013) 

  
  
  

Research publications & citation statistics:

• 150+ peer-review journal papers
• 30+ paper published in proceedings of international conferences, meetings, and workshops
• 3 invited book chapters
• 2 popularizing papers
• 4 academic dissertations
• Citations: 2800+ (Web of Knowledge, May, 2012)
• Hirsch h-index: 29