Jakob Rosenkrantz de Lasson

My curriculum vitae

Experience

1. Director of Sales and Marketing
   [2024-]

   TICRA (Copenhagen, Denmark)

2. Head of Team: Sales and Marketing
   [2022-2024]

   TICRA (Copenhagen, Denmark)

   • Managed day-to-day operations of sales team, including recruitment and oversight of a four-person team.
   • Oversaw account management and provided technical pre-sales consultation for existing and new customers.
   • Directed sales budgeting and forecasting processes.
   • Developed and managed legal and export control aspects of international sales.
   • Led company and product marketing strategy, planning, and production.
   • Planned and executed exhibitions and tradeshows.
3. Product Lead: Antenna Placement and Scattering
   [2021-2022]

   TICRA (Copenhagen, Denmark)

   • Product responsible for Antenna Placement and Scattering and the ESTEAM software.
4. Research Engineer
   [2016-2021]

   TICRA (Copenhagen, Denmark)

   • R&D of new antenna technologies for space applications in projects with the European Space Agency (ESA).
   • Publishing (1 journal article, 24 conference contributions) and presentations (7 international conferences).
   • Antenna design and consulting for space missions and applications.
   • Project management of software development (SATSOFT 3.3, TICRA Tools 19.0, GRASP 10.6, SATSOFT 3.1, CHAMP 3.2).
5. Product Lead: Mission Planning and Analysis
   [2018-2020]

   TICRA (Copenhagen, Denmark)

   • Product responsible for Mission Planning and Analysis and the SATSOFT software.
   • Customer meetings and visits, SATSOFT product demos, collection of product wishes and market intelligence.
   • Prioritization and selection of new product features, user-perspective design of new functionality in collaboration with software engineers. In charge of SATSOFT 3.3 and 3.4 releases.
   • Content-creation for SATSOFT tutorial videos, product website and SATSOFT marketing.
6. Ph.D. Researcher in Nanophotonics
   [2012-2015]

   Nanophotonics Theory and Signal Processing group at DTU Fotonik
   Technical University of Denmark (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)

   • Research and mathematical modeling of photonic crystals, light-matter interactions, slow light, coupled cavity-waveguide structures, and plasmonic nanostructures.
   • Development of computational techniques and software (Matlab).
   • Publishing (7 journal articles + 9 conference contributions) and presentations (4 international conferences).
   • Guest lecturing (B.Sc.) and student project supervision (M.Sc.).
7. Teaching Assistant
   [2009-2013]

   Technical University of Denmark (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
   Problem solving sessions and homework grading in six courses on physics, mathematics, programming and numerical algorithms.

Education

1. Ph.D. in Nanophotonics
   [2012-2015]

   Nanophotonics Theory and Signal Processing group at DTU Fotonik
   Technical University of Denmark (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
   [Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Niels Gregersen, Prof. Jesper Mørk, and Dr. Philip Trøst Kristensen]
   Thesis Defense Courses

2. M.Sc.Eng. in Physics and Nanotechnology
   [2010-2012]

   Technical University of Denmark (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
   Enrolled in DTU’s Honors Program
   Thesis Defense Courses

3. B.Sc.Eng. in Physics and Nanotechnology
   [2007-2010]

   Technical University of Denmark (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
   Thesis Defense Courses

4. General Certificate of Secondary Education
   [2003-2006]

   Sct. Knuds Gymnasium (Odense, Denmark)

Voluntary activities

1. Blogger at ing.dk
   [2012-]

   Blogging at Forskningsingeniøren

2. Presenter at Forskningens Døgn
   [2014-2017]

   Popular scientific presentations of nanophotonics and space missions

3. Mentor
   [2011]

   For three third-year high school students as part of Akademiet for talentfulde unge

Stays abroad

1. Visiting Researcher
   [2015]

   École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)
   Laboratory of Physics of Nanostructures, headed by Prof. Eli Kapon

2. Summer School on Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics
   [2013]

   École de Physique des Houches (Les Houches, France)
   Program

3. Summer School on Nanotechnology
   [2011]

   Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble, France)
   Courses

4. Exchange
   [2010]

   University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland, USA)
   Courses

5. Study Abroad
   [2002-2003]

   Lycée International (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France)