Curriculum Vitae

 

Name: Christian Romer Rosberg

Date of birth: March 2 1980

Place of birth: Gladsaxe, Denmark

Nationality: Danish

 

Current occupation

 

Ph.D. Student

Nonlinear Physics Centre,

Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS),

Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering,

Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Thesis title: Spatial control of light in nonlinear and periodic photonic structures.

Thesis submission date: January 2008.

 

Academic qualifications

 

Name of degree: Master of Science in Engineering (Engineering Physics).

Year awarded: 2004.

Institution: Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Master’s project was carried out at the Ørsted Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Thesis title: Cooling and trapping of sodium atoms.

Average diploma grade: 10.9 on a scale of 13.

 

Organizational and international experience      

 

President (2006-2007) of the Optical Society of America (OSA) Student Chapter at the Australian National University (Australia).

 

Co-organizer of scientific outreach project “Optics in the Outback” (2007), New South Wales, Australia (cf. “Other publications”).

 

Undergraduate course work (2001-2002) and laboratory research project (2003) at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France), as part of M.Sc. program in Denmark.

 

Language skills               

 

Fluent in English, French, Danish, and Swedish.

 

Travel scholarship awards

 

Fabrikant P. A. Fiskers Fond (2007), The Helen and Robert Crompton Travel Scholarship (2006), Reinholdt W. Jorcks Fond (2005), Krista og Viggo Petersens Fond (2005, 2007), Thomas B. Thriges Fond (2005, 2007), Otto Mønsteds Fond (2003, 2005, 2007), Hans og Lilly Lauritzens Mindefond (2001), Henry og Mary Skovs Fond (2001), Ingeniørforeningens Hjælpe- og Lånefond (2001), DTU’s rejsestipendium (2001).

 

Scientific publications

 

7 refereed papers in high-ranking international journals, and 25 conference contributions since 2004.

Scientific publications

 

Refereed journal papers

 

1.       C. R. Rosberg, F. H. Bennet, D. N. Neshev, P. D. Rasmussen, O. Bang, W. Krolikowski, A. Bjarklev, and Yu. S. Kivshar, “Tunable diffraction and self-defocusing in liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers,“ Opt. Express 15, 12145-12150 (2007).

 

2.       C. R. Rosberg, D. N. Neshev, A. A. Sukhorukov, W. Krolikowski, and Yu. S. Kivshar, “Observation of nonlinear self-trapping in triangular photonic lattices," Opt. Lett. 32, 397-399 (2007).

 

3.       C. R. Rosberg, D. N. Neshev, W. Krolikowski, A. Mitchell, R. A. Vicencio, M. I. Molina, and Yu. S. Kivshar, “Observation of surface gap solitons in semi-infinite waveguide arrays," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 083901 (2006).

 

4.       C. R. Rosberg, I. L. Garanovich, A. A. Sukhorukov, D. N. Neshev, W. Krolikowski, and Yu. S. Kivshar, “Demonstration of all-optical beam steering in modulated photonic lattices," Opt. Lett. 31, 1498-1500 (2006).

 

5.       M. Matuszewski, C. R. Rosberg, D. N. Neshev, A. A. Sukhorukov, A. Mitchell, M. Trippenbach, M. W. Austin, W. Krolikowski, and Yu. S. Kivshar, "Crossover from self-defocusing to discrete trapping in nonlinear waveguide arrays," Opt. Express 14, 254-259 (2006).

 

6.       C. R. Rosberg, D. N. Neshev, A. A. Sukhorukov, W. Krolikowski, and Yu. S. Kivshar, “Tunable positive and negative refraction in optically induced photonic lattices," Opt. Lett. 30, 2293-2295 (2005).

 

7.       C. R. Rosberg, B. Hanna, D. N. Neshev, A. A. Sukhorukov, W. Krolikowski, and Yu. S. Kivshar, "Discrete interband mutual focusing in nonlinear photonic lattices," Opt. Express 13, 5369-5376 (2005).

 

Other publications

 

8.       C. R. Rosberg, R. Fischer, and A. Prasad, “Long-Distance Learning: Teaching Optics in the Outback,” Optics and Photonics News, 18(6), 22 (2007).

 

9.       C. R. Rosberg, D. N. Neshev, Ya. V. Kartashov, R. A. Vicencio, W. Krolikowski, M. I. Molina, A. Mitchell, V. A. Vysloukh, L. Torner, and Yu. S. Kivshar, “Nonlinear Tamm states in periodic photonic structures,” Optics and Photonics News, Optics in 2006 special issue, 17(12), 29 (2006).

 

10.   C. R. Rosberg, D. N. Neshev, A. A. Sukhorukov, W. Krolikowski, and Yu. S. Kivshar, “Tunable negative refraction of light in photonic lattices,” Optics and Photonics News, Optics in 2005 special issue, 16(12), 38 (2005).

 

11.   C. R. Rosberg, "Integrated optics in stellar interferometry: realization of a 3x3 MMI beam combiner on planar glass substrate," Journal of the Danish Optical Society, DOPS-Nyt 1 (2004).

 

 

 

Conferences and meetings

 

20 contributed talks and 5 posters at international conferences since 2004

 

1.       SPIE International Symposium: Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology, Photonics: Design, Technology and Packaging, Canberra, Australia, 4-7 December 2007.

2.       Frontiers in Optics (FiO), the 91st Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America (OSA), San Jose, California, USA, 16-20 September 2007.

3.       Optical Society of America Student Chapter Leadership Meeting, San Jose, California, USA, 16 September 2007.

4.       Nonlinear Photonics (OSA/NP), Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 2-6 September 2007.

5.       6th Workshop of the Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Murramarang Resort, South Durras, New South Wales, Australia, 21-23 February 2007.

6.       Annual Meeting of the European Optical Society (EOS), Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Optics: From Sources to Guided Waves, Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles, France, 16-19 October 2006.

7.       Frontiers in Optics (FiO), the 90th Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America (OSA), Rochester, New York, USA, 8-12 October 2006.

8.       Optical Society of America Student Chapter Leadership Meeting, Rochester, New York, USA, 8 October 2006.

9.       5th Workshop of the Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia, 9-11 August 2006.

10.   31st Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10-13 July 2006.

11.   International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 3-7 July 2006.

12.   Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS), Long Beach, California, USA, 21-26 May 2006.

13.   SPIE International Symposium: Microelectronics, MEMS, and Nanotechnology, Photonics: Design, Technology and Packaging, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 11-14 December 2005.

14.   18th Annual Meeting of the Laser and Electro-Optics Society (IEEE/LEOS), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 23-27 October 2005.

15.   4th Workshop of the Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS): Focusing Research, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 6-7 October 2005.

16.   Bragg Gratings, Poling & Photosensitivity/30th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (BGPP/ACOFT), and Photonic Crystals: Fundamentals to Devices, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 4-8 July 2005.

17.   Australian Institute of Physics 16th Biennial Congress, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 31 January – 4 February 2005.

18.   8th European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics (ECAMP VIII, Rennes, France), 6-10 July 2004.

19.   European Union network for Cold Atoms and Ultra Precise Atomic Clocks (CAUAC), Final Network Meeting, Porquerolles, France, 24-27 April 2004.

20.   Danish Physical Society Annual Meeting, Nyborg, Denmark, 27-28 May 2004.