Olle Eriksson

Name Olle Eriksson
Work Groups Work Group 4 - Theory
Laboratory Physics Department
Organisation Uppsala University
Website http://www.fysik.uu.se/cmt/index.html
Areas of Research magnetism, cohesion, electronics, elasticity, electronic structure
Research Keywords materials theory, density functional theory, electronic structure

Areas of Future Interest magnetism, cohesion, electronics, elasticity, electronic structure

Selected Publications:

Brief CV
Curriculum Vitae, Olle Eriksson, Born 1960

Current position
2008- Chair Professor, Head of the Division of Materials Theory, Physics Department, UU

Earlier appointments
2002-2008: Chair Professor, Head of Theoretical Magnetism
1999- 02: Promoted Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
1997-1999 Associate Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
1996-1997: Long term visiting staff member, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
1993-96: Associate Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden
1991-93: Assistant Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden,

Post Doc
1989-1991 Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, USA

PhD
1989 PhD from Uppsala University, Sweden

Awards
• Awarded the Aron Svenssons premium for skilful work in electronic structure and magnetic properties of actinides, lanthanides, and transition metal systems, 1989.
• Awarded the Bjurzons premium for excellent thesis 1988/1989.
• Awarded the Ångströms premium in Physics 13/1 1993.
• Awarded the 1994 Swedish governments price for young researchers, which annually is given to ``each years most merited research talent'.
• Awarded "Wallmarkska priset" 2001, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The price was handed over by His Majesty the King Karl-Gustaf XVI.
• Awarded "Göran Gustafsson priset" 2002, from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
• Awarded “Thureus priset" 2002, from the Royal Society of Sciences.
• Recipient of ERC senior research grant 2009.

Supervision of graduate students (and current affiliation, if in academia)
• 1990-1994: Per Söderlind, Livermore National Lab., USA
• 1989-1993: Anders Hjelm ,
• 1992-1995: Joakim Trygg,
• 1993-1996: Marek Pajda,
• 1992-1998: Lars Fast,
• 1993-1997: Olof Hjortstam,
• 1993-1998: Anna Delin, Department of Materials Science, KTH
• 1994-1999: Peter James,
• 1995-2001: Per Andersson, Swedish Defence Institute (FOI)
• 1995-2000: Urban Lundin, Department of Engineering Science, Uppsala Univ.
• 1995-2001: Håkan Hugosson, Department of Quantum Chemistry, KTH
• 1997-2002: Jonas Fransson, Department of Physics, Uppsala University
• 1998-2003: Erik Holmström, Universidad Austral, Chile
• 1998-2003: Daniel Åberg, Livermore National Lab., USA
• 1998-2004: Mamo Collarietti-Tosti, KTH, Sweden
• 1999-2005: Alexei Grechnev, Academy of Science, Kharkov Ukraine
• 2002-2005: Till Burkert,
• 2001-2005: Lars Bergqvist, Juelich Forschungzentrum, Germany
• 2002-2006 Raquel Lizarraga, Universidad Austral, Chile
• 2002-2006 Ola Wessely, Imperial Colleague, UK
• 2002-2006 Anders Bergman, Department of Materials Science, KTH
• 2003-2007 Björn Skubic,
• 2003-2007 Petros Souvatzis, Los Alamos National Lab.
• 2002-2009 Carlos Ortiz
• 2002-2009 Torbjörn Björkman, Helsinkfors Univ.


PhD degrees from the Division for Materials Theory, Physics Department, UU (since 2008)

Tomas Dziekan (2008) (main supervisor Susanne Mirbt)
Carlos Moyses Graca-Araujo (2008) (main supervisor Rajeev Ahuja)
Love Koci (2008) (main supervisor Rajeev Ahuja), Oleg Peil (main supervisor Börje Johansson), Fredrik Bultmark (main supervisor Lars Nordström), Peter Larsson (main supervisor Lars Nordström),

Current and past post docs in Theoretical Magnetism/ Materials Theory (since 2002)
• Ravindran Ponniah, Olivier Lebacque, Olivier Bengonne, Biplab Sanyal, Sebastiene Lebegue, Dominique Legute, Jan Rusz, Pooja Panchmatia, Mitziku Suzuki, Younsuk Yun, Ehesan Ali

Docents obtained in Theoretical Magnetism/Materials Theory (since 2002)
• Natalia Skorodumova, 2007, Biplab Sanyal, 2007, Levente Vitos, 2007

Commissions of trust (from 2000)
• 2009, member of evaluation committee for the Helmholz association for JARA (budget 300 MEuro)
• 2009, Coordinator of EU project MONAMI (930 KEuro)
• 2008, member of the Royal Society of Sciences (Kungliga Vetenskapssociteten)
• 2006-2007, member of the SSF strategy group for materials science in Sweden.
• 2000-2007, director of materials science program, FRAM
• Since 2005, board member of Center for Dynamical Processes, CDP
• Since 2003, board member of Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC
• Since 2010, board member of the Swedish Research Council, Division of Natural Science.
• 2010, member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Other relevant qualifications including scientific
• 66 Invited talks at international conferences and international colloquia
• Organizer of 21 scientific conferences and workshops
• Number of papers published or accepted for publication: 430 (approximately half in The Physical Review), 5 book chapters and 3 popular scientific articles
• Number of papers published or accepted for publication in top quality journals: 55 (3 in Nature, 1 in Nature Materials, 1 in Science, 1 in PNAS, 1 in Advanced Functional Materials, 2 in Advanced Materials and 46 in The Physical Review Letters).
• One Swedish patent on perpendicular magnetic recording.
• Number of times my papers have been quoted: ~ 8000.
• My annual citation-rate is currently ~900 citations per year.
• H-index: 47

Appointments as reviewer for international journals, books, proposals, licentiate and thesis work
• Reviewer for journals such as Phys. Rev. Lett., Phys. Rev. B, J.Phys. Cond. Matt., Physica, Physica Scripta, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, J.Appl. Phys. and Nature Publishing Group.
• Reviewer for Scientific Applications for the Department of Energy, USA (~1 annually), NSF (USA), the Austrian Science Foundation (several times), the Science Foundation Ireland, the Norwegian Science Council, the South African Research Foundation, The Czech Academy of Science, The Foundation for Strategic Research, the Swedish Research Council and the Wallenberg foundation.
• Reviewer of the PhD thesis of Michel Freyss, Strassbourg 1998; Iosif Galanakis, Strassbourg 1998; Oleksandr Ney, University of Halle-Wittenberg, 2003; Lulu Chionel University of Nijmegen, 2004, Ersoy Sasioglu Halle 2006, Fabrizio Cossu Cagliari 2008.
• Reviewer of Associate Professor appointments at the Universities of Västerås and Linköping and reviewer of a Professorship at Högskolan i Gävle, 2000.
• Faculty opponent of Vladimir A. Froltsov, University of Lund, 19 december 2000.
• Licenciate opponent of Stefan Olsson, KTH, 2001 and Francois Liot, Linköping 2006.
• Since 2004 member of the board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center (NSC).
• International expert in evaluating the promotion of Slava Dobrovitsky from Associate Scientist to Scientist, 2004, Ames Lab. and for Anders Nicklasson, Los Alamos National Lab. 2004, and for Per Söderlind, Livermore Lab. 2008.
• Reviewer of Associate Professor appointment at Chalmers, 2006.
• Reviewer of the reappointment of Prof. Stefan Blugel as head of Institute of Solid State Research, Forschungzentrum Julich, 2006.
• Reviewer of Dr.Gueorguiev to become ‘Docent’ at Linköping University, 2007.
• Faculty opponent of Tor Olof Strandberg, University of Lund, 11 december 2009.