Curriculum Vitae
Name in publications: Alejandro O. Leon
Full name: Alejandro Osvaldo Leon Vega
E-mail: aleonv (at) utem.cl
Nationality: Chilean
Positions and Education
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.
current grants
(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.
Previous grants and fellowships
(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).
(2016-2018) “Beca Postdoctorado en el extranjero”, Becas Chile, Conicyt, 2016. Project No. 74170017. Score 4,964 (5,000 is the maximum), fourth position (138 applications were received and 71 were accepted).
(2012-2016) “Beca de Doctorado Nacional” de Conicyt, 2012, Project No. 21120878.
(2014) “Asistencia a Eventos y Cursos Cortos”, 2014, Project No. 67140188, Conicyt.
Participation in organization committees, Symposia and conference chair, etc.
Chair of the "Spintronics' Day" conference, January 23rd, 2024, with chair N. Vidal-Silva.
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.
Guest Editor
New trends on instabilities and nonequilibrium structures at Chaos, Solitons & Fractals (IF-2022 9.922).
Guided/co-guided students:
2023.- Susana Contreras-Celada, Master in Physics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
Teaching duties from 2020
FISC0002 Theory of "Electromagnetism"
FISC8050 Theory of "Optics and Waves"
FISC8050 Laboratory of "Optics and Waves"
FIS621/FISC8040 Laboratory of "Electromagnetism"