Curriculum Vitae
Name in publications: Alejandro O. Leon
Full name: Alejandro Osvaldo Leon Vega
E-mail: aleonv (at) utem.cl
Nationality: Chilean
Name in publications: Alejandro O. Leon
Full name: Alejandro Osvaldo Leon Vega
E-mail: aleonv (at) utem.cl
Nationality: Chilean
01/2022 - Present. Associate Professor. Department of Physics, Metropolitan University of Technology, UTEM, Chile.
03/2020 - 12/2021. Assistant Professor. Department of Physics, Metropolitan University of Technology, UTEM, Chile.
11/2018 - 03/2020. Associate Researcher. Institute of Physics, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, PUCV, Chile.
03/2018 - 10/2018. Postdoctoral Researcher. Cedenna, University of Santiago, USACH, Chile. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dora Altbir (National Prize).
05/2016 - 01/2018. Postdoctoral Researcher. Institute for Material Research, Tohoku University, Japan. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gerrit E.W. Bauer.
03/2012-03/2016. Ph. D. in Physics. Physics Department, University of Chile. Thesis advisor: Prof. Dr. Marcel G. Clerc.
Thesis Title: "Dissipative Magnetization Textures Induced By Spin-Transfer Torques And Alternating Magnetic Fields".
03/2008-12/2011. Bachelor in Physics. Faculty of Phys. and Math. Scs., University of Chile.
(03/2023-03/2026) Fondecyt Iniciacion 2023. Project No. 11230120, entitled "Magnon spin and heat transport in complex ferrimagnetic insulators." My role: Principal Investigator (PI).
(04/2021-03/2025) Fondecyt regular 2021. Project No. 1210353, entitled "Transition to Complex Spatiotemporal Dynamics: Theory & Experiments", ANID. My role: Co-Investigator, with Marcel Clerc as the Principal Investigator.
(03/2021-03/2024) ECOS-ANID. Project ID ECOS200006, entitled "Chimeras in voltage-driven coupled nanomagnets," ECOS (France) and ANID (Chile). My role: Principal Investigator (PI). Principal Investigator in France: Dr. Saliya Coulibaly.
(03/2019-03/2022) Fondecyt Postdoctorado 2019. Project No. 3190030, entitled "Magnetic textures induced by a variable anisotropy," Conicyt. My role: Principal Investigator (PI).
Chair of the "Spintronics' Day" workshop (Santiago: 2024, 2025, 2026).
Chair of the “Rare-earth Spintronics” symposium at the 68th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM). Dallas, United States. Oct. 30th- Nov 3rd, 2023.
16th International Seminar on Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical Physics, November 24-26, 2021, Temuco, Chile.
XVIII International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures, December 6-10, 2021, Valparaiso, Chile.
Spintronics' Day, Chile, 2026.