Kristján LEÓSSON
Kristján LEÓSSON
(Innovation Center Iceland, Iceland)
Address: Fornhagi 22, IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland
Date/place of birth: 24-Dec-1970, St. John’s, Canada
Citizenship: Icelandic and Canadian
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EDUCATION
| University | Discipline | Degree | Completed |
| Technical University of Denmar | Electrical Engineering | Ph.D. | 2002 |
| University of Iceland | Physics | M.Sc. | 1996 |
| Queen's University, Canada | Engineering Physics, Materials Science | B.Sc.Eng. | 1994 |
| Queen's University, Canada | Philosophy | B.A. (minor) | 1994 |
EMPLOYMENT
2014 – Managing Director, Dept. of Materials, Biotechnology and Energy, Innovation Center Iceland
2012 – 2014 Head of Physics Department, University of Iceland
2005 – 2014 Senior Research Scientist, Dept. of Physics, Science Institute, University of Iceland
2004 – 2005 Process Development Engineer, Lumiscence A/S, Denmark
2001 – 2004 Research Engineer/Project Manager, Micro Managed Photons A/S, Denmark
1998 – 2001 Ph.D. student, Microelectronic Center and Research Center COM, DTU, Denmark
1997 – 1998 Research Assistant, Microelectronic Center, DTU, Denmark
1996 – 1997 Research Assistant, Science Institute, University of Iceland
MAIN AWARDS
2007 Icelandic Science and Technology Policy Council Young Scientist Award, Iceland
2002 Dir. Peter Gorm-Petersens Award for outstanding Ph.D. work, Technical University of Denmark
R&D ACTIVITIES
68 peer-reviewed publications, 4 granted patents, >30 presentations at major international conferences, >2500 citations, h-index 22 (ISI). Principal investigator of several university and government-funded research projects in optics and photonics. Main supervisor of 2 Ph.D. students and 2 M.Sc. students.
ADMINISTRATION
Chairman of Intellectual Property Committee of the University of Iceland and Landspitali University Hospital, from 2010. Member of Icelandic Research Fund expert panel for engineering, technological and physical sciences 2009-2012 (chairman 2011-2012). Topical Editor of Optics Letters, from 2013. National Expert on the European Research Council, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, and Future and Emerging Technologies, under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, from 2013.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2011-2015, full publication list at uni.hi.is/kleos)
Peer-reviewed articles
68. A. Kossoy, V. Merk, D. Simakov, K. Leosson, S. Kéna‐Cohen, S.A. Maier, Optical and Structural Properties of Ultra‐thin Gold Films, Advanced Optical Materials 3, 71-77 (2015)
67. Y. Chen, V.A. Zenin, K. Leosson, X. Shi, M.G. Nielsen, S.I. Bozhevolnyi, Efficient interfacing photonic and long-range dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguides, Optics Express 23, 9100-9108 (2015)
66. A. Kossoy, R.L. Magnusson, T.K. Tryggvason, K. Leosson, S. Olafsson, Method to control deposition rate instabilities—High power impulse magnetron sputtering deposition of TiO2, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 33, 021514 (2015)
65. J.P. Balthasar Mueller, K. Leosson, F. Capasso, Polarization-selective coupling to long-range surface plasmon polariton waveguides, Nano Letters 14, 5524–5527 (2014)
64. S. Kharitonov, R. Kiselev, I. Fernandez de Jauregui Ruiz, A. Kumar, X. Shi, K. Leosson, T. Pertsch, S. Bozhevolnyi, S. Nolte, A. Chipouline, Data transmission in long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides, Optics Express 22, 26742-26751 (2014)
63. E.B. Magnusson, S. Halldorsson, R.M.T. Fleming, K. Leosson, Real-time optical pH measurement in a standard microfluidic cell culture system, Biomedical Optics Express 4, 1749-1758 (2013)
62. B. Agnarsson, F. Magnus, T.K. Tryggvason, A.S. Ingason, K. Leosson, S. Olafsson, J.T. Gudmundsson, Rutile TiO2 thin films grown by reactive high power impulse magnetron sputtering, Thin Solid Films 545, 445 (2013)
1. I. Slovinsky, G.K. Stefansson, A. Kossoy, K. Leosson, Propagation Loss of Long-Range Surface Plasmon Polariton Gold Stripe Waveguides in the Thin-Film Limit, Plasmonics 8, 1613 (2013)
60. A. Kossoy, D. Simakov, S. Olafsson, K. Leosson, Determining surface coverage of ultra-thin gold films from X-ray reflectivity measurements, Thin Solid Films 536, 50 (2013)
59. V.A. Zenin, Z. Han, V.S. Volkov, K. Leosson, I.P. Radko, S.I. Bozhevolnyi, Directional coupling in long-range dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguides, Optics Express 21, 8799-8807 (2013)
58. V. Merk, K. Leosson, J. Kneipp, Gap size reduction and increased SERS enhancement in lithographically patterned nanoparticle arrays by templated growth, Advanced Optical Materials (2013). Featured in Materials Views.
57. V.S. Gaware, M. Håkerud, K. Leosson, S. Jonsdottir, A. Høgset, K. Berg, M. Másson, Tetraphenylporphyrin Tethered Chitosan Based Carriers for Photochemical Transfection, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 56, 807-819 (2013).
56. K. Leosson, A.S. Ingason, B. Agnarsson, A. Kossoy, S. Olafsson, M.C. Gather, Ultra-thin gold films on transparent polymers, Nanophotonics 2, 3-11 (2013)
55. K. Leosson, Optical amplification of surface plasmon polaritons: review, J. Nanophoton. 6, 061801 (2012)
54. K. Leosson, S. Shayestehaminzadeh, T. K. Tryggvason, A. Kossoy, B. Agnarsson, F. Magnus, S. Olafsson, J. T. Gudmundsson, E. B. Magnusson, I. A. Shelykh, Comparing resonant photon tunneling via cavity modes and Tamm plasmon polariton modes in metal-coated Bragg mirrors, Optics Letters Vol. 37, Iss. 19, pp. 4026–4028 (2012)
53. K. Leosson, B. Agnarsson, Integrated biophotonics with CYTOP, Micromachines 3(1), 114-125 (2012)
52. V.S. Volkov, Z. Han, M.G. Nielsen, K. Leosson, H. Keshmiri, J. Gosciniak, O. Albrektsen, S.I. Bozhevolnyi, Long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides operating at telecommunication wavelengths, Optics Letters 36, 4278-4280 (2011)
51. B. Agnarsson, A.B. Jonsdottir, N.B. Arnfinnsdottir, K. Leosson, On-chip modulation of evanescent illumination and live-cell imaging with polymer waveguides, Optics Express 19, 22929-22935 (2011)
Book chapter
K. Leosson, M.C. Gather, P.G. Hermannsson, A. Boltasseva, Long-range surface plasmon polariton waveguides and devices, in Plasmonics and Plasmonic Metamaterials: Analysis and Applications, G. Shvets and I. Tsukerman, eds. (World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2011)
