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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Recent news:

 

• July 2010: Elton Bitincka defended his MSc thesis at "Sapienza" Univ. of Rome (work performed at DTU Fotonik). He received the maximum score (101/110) with Cum Laude. Moreover, the Commision added a special honour mention: "printing dignity"
  
  
• June 2010: Wei Yan (presently at KTH) to receive Hans Christian  Ørsted postdoctoral fellowship for metamaterial research. 
  
  
• June 2010: Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation supports NanoPlast consortium by granting 50 MDKK (total budget of ~100 MDKK).  
  
  
• June 2010: Best poster award to Jure Grgic for slow light paper presented at The International Conference on Nanophotonics (Tsukuba, Japan).
  
  
• May 2010: N.A. Mortensen approved by OSA's Board of Editors to serve as an Associate Editor for Optics Express.
  
  
• April 2010: Invited book chapter (co-authored with Prof. Anders Kristensen) on optofluidic light sources published in Handbook of Optofluidics (CRC Press).
  
  
• March 2010: Program for Sino-Danish Scientific and Technological Cooperation supports network activity with Prof. Sailing He at Zhejiang Univ. (ZJU).
  
  
• November 2009: Two invited book chapter (co-authored with Prof. Anders Kristensen) on optofluidic dye lasers and micro-droplet dye lasers published in international series on Optofluidics.
  
  
• June 2009: Jingjing Zhang (presently at ZJU, China) to receive Hans Christian  Ørsted postdoctoral fellowship for metamaterial research. 
  
  
• January 2009: Recently published APL number one on the Top 20 most Downloaded Articles
  
  
• December 2008: Jointed paper with the group of professor Anders Kristensen featured on the cover of the APL December 8 issue. [Christiansen et al., APL 93, 231101 (2008)]
  
  
• October 2008: Sanshui Xiao and Niels Asger Mortensen share the EOS Prize 2008 with KTH-professor Min Qui for their joined authorship on a theoretrical paper on light-transmission through sub-wavelength holes.
  
  
• Juli 2008: Niels Asger Mortensen is a nominated Young Researcher Participant in the 58th Meeting of Nobel Prize Winners in Physics organized by the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.
  
  
• June 2008: the research group joins the Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark.
  
  
• April 2008: The group participates in the newly established VKR Center of Excellence for "NAnophotonics for TErabit Communications" granted by the Villum Kann Rasmusen Foundation. The center is headed by Prof. Jesper Mørk and the theory work package is headed by Niels Asger Mortensen.
  
  
• January 2008: Niels Asger Mortensen receives the Young Elite Researcher Award.
  

 

• November 2007: Sanshui Xiao receives a talent grant from the Danish Research Councel for Technology and Production Sciences (FTP) for a three-year Assistant Professorship within theory of nanoplasmonic sensors.

 

• July 2007: Invited paper in the "Optofluidics" special issue of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics edited by Prof. D. Erickson.

 

• March 2007: Niels Asger Mortensen receives Statoil prisen 2007.

 

Features & press coverage:

 

1. H.K. Tokle
   "DTU artikel om avancerede lysledere får europæisk pris" (in Danish)
   CampusXpress●DTU, issue 43 (October 26, 2004). 
   
   
2. J. Ramskov
   "Europæisk optikpris til tre DTU-forskere" (in Danish)
   Ingeniøren, issue 44 (October 29, 2004).
   
   
3. H.K. Tokle
   "DTU's første doktor i fotoniske krystalfibre" (in Danish)
   DTU AVISEN, issue 5 (April 28, 2006).
   
   
4. D. Nikbin
   "Levitated dye droplets show lasing action"  
   Optics.org (June 16, 2006).
   
   

5. M. Dinnetz

   "MIC's First Doctor of Technology"

   MIC annual report 2005-2006 (March, 2007).
   
   

6. P.K. Nielsen
   "Ny visionær forskning forbedrer naturens materialer" (in Danish)
   FTP press release (March 2, 2007). 
   
   

7. N. Østergaard 
   "DTU vil udvikle miniantenne til anti-terror" (in Danish)

   Ingeniøren, issue 9 (March 2, 2007). 
   
   

8. P. Hoffmann

   "Statoil-prisen 2007 til Niels Asger Mortensen" (in Danish)

   DTU news release (March 16, 2007).
   
   

9. M. Larsen

   "Niels Asger Mortensen hædret med Statoil-prisen 2007" (in Danish)

   Jern og Maskinindustrien (March 19, 2007).
   
   

10. C. Legaard

    "Hæder og 100.000 kroner til nano-forsker" (in Danish)

    Erhvervsavisen (March 20, 2007).
    
    

11. P. Brinch

    "Statoil-prisen marts 2007 går til Niels Asger Mortensen" (in Danish) 

    Statoil press release (March 21, 2007).
    
    

12. P. Hoffmann
    "Årsfesten 2007" (in Danish)
    DTU Avisen, issue 6 (June 4, 2007).
    
    

13. K. Jagadeesan
    "Optofluidic sensors using photonic crystal waveguides"
    Frost & Sullivan Technical Insights (June 22, 2007).
    
    

14. T. Bjerre
    "Ti nye teknologiske fremskridt i støbeskeen med 94 millioner kroner fra Højteknologifonden" (in Danish)
    Højteknologifonden press release (July 3, 2007).
    
    

15. D. Lundsgaard
    "Høreapparater med bedre forståelighed og trådløs energiforsyning" (in Danish)
    ØrstedDTU news release (July 5, 2007). 
    
    

16. L. Wessel
    "Tema: Forskerkarriere" (in Danish)
    Ingeniøren, issue 5 (February 1, 2008).
    
    

17. "Quantum physics: Missing holes add up"
    Nature 452, 785 (2008).
    
    

18. "Kulstof som kvantecomputer"
    Aktuel Naturvidenskab, issue 2, (2008)
    
    

19. S. Hildebrandt
    "Drop biobrændstofferne - sats på atomkraft" (in Danish)
    videnskab.dk (July 3, 2008).
    
    

20. P. Jørnø
    "De bryder naturens grænser" (in Danish)
    Forsknings- og Innovationsstyrelsen (July 10, 2008).
    
    

21. S. Hildebrandt
    "Nyt 3D-material kan gøre objekter usynlige" (in Danish)
    videnskab.dk (August 12, 2008).
    
    

22. "Nanomodifioitu grafeeni saattaa mahdollistaa kvanttilaskennan" (in Finnish)
    Polysteekki, issue 2 (2008).
    
    

23. S. Hildebrandt
    "Ny sensor gransker molekyler med langsomt lys" (in Danish)
    videnskab.dk (September 30, 2008). 
    
    

24. S. Hildebrandt
    "Spejlvendte molekyler jages på dansk grund" (in Danish)
    videnskab.dk (September 30, 2008); jp.dk (September 30, 2008).
    
    

25. R. Engelhardt
    "Bremset lys ser bedre" (in Danish)
    Ingeniøren, issue 40 (October 3, 2008).
    
    

26. S. Hildebrandt
    "Dansker opfinder ny metode til at guide lys"
    videnskab.dk (August 20, 2009).