Recent Awards
& Student Awards

Funding:

1) Department of Energy - Early Career Award. Aug 2025 (Year 2 of Tenure-Track Position), ’Correlated Electron Materials with Novel Quantum Building Blocks’ : DE-SC0026069, $875.000 (2025-2030)

2) NSF DMR SSMC: Design Principles for Structurally Diverse Bismuth-Containing Heteroanionic Materials, Award Number: 2521466. PI: Sara E Skrabalak, Co-PI Alexandru B. Georgescu $550.000 (2025-2028)

3) ’Bringing Smiles to the Children of Indiana’ - national MRS (Materials Research Socity) grant to the student group MRS@IU I am a faculty advisor for (2025): will print photoluminescent toys to share with students at ScienceFest.

PI Awards:
1) Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellence in Research at the International Workshop on Oxide Electronics, Banff Canada - 2025.

2) DOE ECRP - August 2025

3) ACS of Southern Indiana - Chair - 2026

3) APS Career Mentoring Fellow 2022

4) Selected to be one of 6 scientists and 6 filmmakers to be paired up and given a week to make a short film on science in the Imagine Science Film Festival, Oct 17-25, 2019, NY

5) D. Allan Bromley Graduate Fellowship, 2016 (Award Description)

6) AAAS/Science Program For Excellence In Science (January 2016)

7) C.R.I.S.P Outreach Liaison (see also Service to the Community)

8) Department Honors, Columbia university, Columbia College Class of 2011

9) I.I. Rabi Science Scholar, Columbia University, Fall 2007-2011

10) Romanian Ministry of Education Award for Excellence in Education (2007)

11) Bronze Medal, International Physics Olympiad, 2007

12) Bronze Medal, International Physics Olympiad, 2006

13) First Prize, Romanian-Hungarian Physics Contest, Calimanesti, 2006

14) Center For Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest - September 2006 to

January 2007

Student Awards.

1) Madison Genslinger, Ph.D Student National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow-

ship Program (NSF GRFP) awardee, Materials Research - Materials Theory. Sole winner in

the field in the United States. Also received a teaching award for excellence in teaching with

me, Intro to Physical Chemistry C360 (Fall 2024). This award is given to 3-4 students/year

out of 100+ Ph.D students teaching in the department.

2) Md. Rajbanul Akhond, Ph.D Student: C500 award for best 1st year research write-up, Kindig Fellowship, travel awards.

3) Varsha Kumari, Ph.D Student: American Ceramics Society’s Electronic Materials and

Applications conference, Denver Colorado (Feb 2025): 1st place best student oral presentation. Associate Instructor Award for excellence in teaching for her work teaching with me Intro to Physical Chemistry C360 (Fall 2024) and Surface Chemistry and Analysis C416/C616 (Spring 2025); chem GRC travel award (Fall 2024). Additional: Kindig Fellowship (2025-2026), Siedle Materials Fellowship (2026-2027); selected to attend and attended IEEE FerroSchool 2025 at Oak Ridge.

4) Emily Ward, undergraduate student (alumna): ACS Inorganic prize for undergraduate students (2025). Schwarzkopf award for the top graduating chemistry undergraduate student at IU in 2025. Indiana University nominee for Goldwater Scholarship; US National Academy of Science Nominee for Lindau Nobel Prize Winner’s Meeting - Applied Physics 2024. Currently pursuing her Ph.D in Chemistry at Princeton. NSF GRFP winner Materials Research - Materials Chemistry.

Peer Reviewed Papers at IU

1) Wentz KE, Coschigano MG, Louise Chen N, Samanta B, Jiang GQ, Siegler MA, Thoi VS, Rossini AJ, Georgescu AB, Katz HE, Klausen RS. Functional silicon crosslinks in conjugated polymer networks. Polym Chem. 2026 Jul 29. doi: 10.1039/d6py00567e. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42598413; PMCID: PMC13470799.
2. Lucia Varbaro, Lukas Korosec, Chih-Ying Hsu, Duncan T. L. Alexander, Alexandru B. Georgescu, and Jean-Marc Triscone, ’Interface density driven metal-to-insulator transition in nickelate based heterostructures’, Phys. Rev. Materials, 9, 116202 (2025)

3. Bidisha Biswas, Kingsley Bortey, Sarah J. Cox-V´azquez, Bipasa Samanta, Oscar Medrano,

Batul Shakir, Crystal Tran, Chi-Tam Vo, Alexandru Bogdan Georgescu, Aliaksandra Lisouskaya,

and Ricardo Javier V´azquez, ’A Conjugated Oligoelectrolyte Exhibiting Room Temperature

Spin-Correlated Radical Pair Character for Biological Sensing’, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 147, 52,

47921–47933 (2025)

4. Bipasa Samanta, Alexandru B. Georgescu*, ’In-Plane Ni-O-Ni Bond Angles as Structural

Fingerprints of Superconductivity in Layered Nickelates: Effects of Pressure, Strain, Layering,

and Correlations, Phys. Rev. Materials, 9, 114801 (2025)

5. Varsha Kumari, Julia Bauer, Alexandru B. Georgescu*, ’Molecular-Orbital Symmetry-Driven

Trimer Formation in Kagome Correlated Electron Materials’ RSC Materials C - Advance

Article, (2025)

6. Emily G. Ward, Alexandru B. Georgescu* ’Visualizing Lone Pairs and Quantifying Their

Bonding in Solids with First-Principles Wannier Tight-Binding Models’, Journal of Physics:

Materials, 8 , 025011, (2025)

7. Aravind Devarakonda, Christie S. Koay, Daniel G. Chica, Morgan Thinel, Asish K. Kundu, Zhi

Lin, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Sebastian Rossi, Sae Young Han, Michael E. Ziebel, Madisen

A. Holbrook, Anil Rajapitamahuni, Elio Vescovo, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Milan

Delor, Xiaoyang Zhu, Abhay N. Pasupathy, Raquel Queiroz, Cory R. Dean, Xavier Roy

’Frustrated electron hopping from the orbital configuration in a two-dimensional lattice’,

Nature Physics, 21, 1260–1266 (2025)

8. Alexandru B. Georgescu* ’Why Adding Charge Carriers to Insulators - Including ‘LK99’ -

Does Not Yield a Metal’, Chemistry of Materials, 37, 5, 1847–1853, 2025

9. Jeonghoon Hong, Bharadwaj Peela, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Herbert A. Fertig, Hanyu Zhu,

and Shixiong Zhang, ’Influence of chromium intercalation in self-intercalated van der Waals

magnets Cr1+δTe2’, Phys. Rev. Materials, 9, 094414 (2025)

10. CT Parzyck, Y Wu, L Bhatt, M Kang, Z Arthur, TM Pedersen, R Sutarto, S Fan, J Pelliciari,

V Bisogni, G Herranz, AB Georgescu, DG Hawthorn, LF Kourkoutis, DA Muller, DG Schlom,

KM Shen, ’Superconductivity in the parent infinite-layer nickelate NdNiO2’, Physical Review

X, 15, 021048, (2025)

11. Jonathan Spring, Natalya Fedorova, Alexandru B. Georgescu*, Alexander Vogel, Gabriele De

Luca, Simon Johr, Cinthia Piamonteze, Marta D. Rossell, Jorge Iniguez-Gonzalez, and Marta

Gibert, ’Engineering the Magnetic Transition Temperatures and the Rare Earth Exchange

Interaction in Oxide Heterostructures’, ACS Nano, 19, 15, 14652–14660, (2025)

12. T. X. Zhang, B. Samanta, J. Wang, A. B. Georgescu, H. A. Fertig, S. X. Zhang, ’Controlled

Vapor–Liquid–Solid Growth of Long and Remarkably Thin Pb1–xSnxTe Nanowires with Strain-

Tunable Ferroelectric Phase Transition’, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 16, 40, 54837–54846,

(2024)

13. L. Varbaro, B. Mundet, C. Dominguez, J. Fowlie, A.B. Georgescu*,L. Korosec, D. Alexan-

der, J.M. Triscone, ’Electronic coupling of metal-insulator transitions in nickelate based

heterostructures’, Advanced Electronic Materials, 2201291, (2023) - Back Cover

14. Hengrui Zhang, Alexandru B Georgescu, Suraj Yerramilli, Christopher Karpovich, Daniel W

Apley, Elsa A Olivetti, James M Rondinelli, Wei Chen, ’Emerging microelectronic materials

by design: Navigating combinatorial design space with scarce and dispersed data’, Accounts

of Materials Research, 2025, 6, 6, 730–741, (2025)

15. Linus Kautzsch, Alexandru B. Georgescu*, Lin-Ding Yuan, Keith M. Taddei, Aiden Reilly,

Ram Seshadri, James M. Rondinelli, and Stephen D. Wilson, Spin Chains with Highly Quantum

Character through Strong Covalency in Ca3CrN3’, Journal of the American Chemical Society

147 (4), 3092-3101, (2025)

16. Lin-Ding Yuan, Alexandru B. Georgescu, James M. Rondinelli ’Non-relativistic spin splitting

in compensated magnets that are not altermagnets’ , Physical Review Letters, 133, 216701,

(2024) Editor’s Choice

17. Linus Kautzsch, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Danilo Puggioni, Greggory Kent, Keith M. Taddei,

Aiden Reilly, Ram Seshadri, James M. Rondinelli, and Stephen D. Wilson, ’Canted Antifer-

romagnetism in Polar MnSiN2 with High Neel Temperature’ ,Physical Review Materials -

Editor’s Suggestion, 7, 104406, (2023)

Peer reviewed papers pre-IU:

Papers w/o previous PIs:

18. Jennifer Fowlie, Alexandru Bogdan Georgescu, Bernat Mundet, Javier del Valle and Philippe

T¨uckmantel, ’Machines for materials and materials for machines: Metal-Insulator Transitions

and Artificial Intelligence’ - perspective article, Frontiers In Physics, 9, 769 (2021)

19. Sanaz Koohfar, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Elke Arenholz, Divine Kumah, ’Confinement of mag-

netism in atomically-thin La0.7Sr0.3CrO3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 heterostructures.’ Nature Partner

Journals, Quantum Materials, 4, 25 (2019) (Open Access)18. Sanaz Koohfar, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Ingrid Hallsteinsen, Ritesh Sachan, Manuel A.

Roldan, Elke Arenholz, Divine P. Kumah, ‘Effect of strain on magnetic and orbital or-

dering of LaSrCrO3/LaSrMnO3 heterostructures’, Physical Review B, 101, 064420 (2020)

arXiv:1911.03007

Papers with previous PIs:

20. Jennifer Fowlie, Alexandru B. Georgescu , Andreas Suter ,Bernat Mundet, Constance Toulouse,

Mael Guennou, Nicolas Jaouen, Michel Viret, Claribel Dominguez, Marta Gibert, Duncan T.

L. Alexander, Jens Kreisel, Antoine Georges, Andrew J. Millis, Jean-Marc Triscone, ’Metal-

insulator transition in a homogeneous series of composition-tuned films’, Journal of Physics -

Condensed Matter, 35 304001, (2023)

21. C. Dominguez, J. Fowlie, A. B. Georgescu , B. Mundet, N. Jaouen, M. Viret, A. Suter, A.

J. Millis, M. Gibert, J. M. Triscone, ’Coupling of Magnetic Phases at Nickelate Interfaces’,

Physical Review Materials, 7, 065002, (2023),

22. Hari Padmanabhan, Vladimir A. Stoica, Peter K. Kim, Maxwell Poore, Tiannan Yang, Xiaozhe

Shen, Alexander H. Reid, Ming-Fu Lin, Suji Park, Jie Yang, Huaiyu (Hugo) Wang, Nathan

Z. Koocher, Danilo Puggioni, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Lujin Min, Seng Huat Lee, Zhiqiang

Mao, James M. Rondinelli, Aaron M. Lindenberg, Long-Qing Chen, Xijie Wang, Richard D.

Averitt, John W. Freeland, and Venkatraman Gopalan, ’Large Itinerant Electron Exchange

Coupling in the Magnetic Topological Insulator MnBi2Te4’, Advanced Materials, 34, 19 (2022)

23. Alexandru B. Georgescu, Andrew J Millis, James M. Rondinelli, ’Trigonal Symmetry Breaking

and its Electronic Effects in Two-Dimensional Dihalides MX2 and Trihalides MX3’, Physical

Review B, (2022)

24. Alexandru B. Georgescu, Andrew J. Millis, ’Quantifying the role of the Lattice in Metal-

Insulator Phase Transitions’, Communications Physics (an Open Access Journal, part of the

Nature Portfolio) 5, 135 (2022)

25. Jocienne N. Nelson, Nathaniel Schreiber, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Berit H. Goodge, Brendan

D. Faeth, Christopher T. Parzyck, Cyrus Zeledon, Lena F. Kourkoutis, Andrew J. Millis,

Antoine Georges, Darrell G. Schlom, Kyle M. Shen, ’Interfacial charge transfer and persistent

metallicity of ultrathin SrIrO3/SrRuO3 heterostructures’, Vol 8, No 5, Science Advances,

(2022)

26. Alexandru B. Georgescu, Peiwen Ren, Aubrey Toland, Nicholas Wagner, Shengtong Zhang,

Kyle D. Miller, Daniel W. Apley, Elsa Olivetti, James M. Rondinelli, ’Database, Features, and

Machine Learning Model to Identify Thermally Driven Metal–Insulator Transition Compounds’,

Chemistry of Materials, 33, 5591, 2021, arXiv:2010.13306 (2021)

27. Alexandru B. Georgescu, Minjung Kim and Sohrab Ismail-Beigi ’Boson Subsidiary Solver

(BoSS) v1. 1’, Computer Physics Communications, Vol 265, 107991 (2021), arXiv:2007.11061

(2020)

28. Claribel Dom´ınguez Ordonez, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Bernat Mundet, Yajun Zhang, Jennifer

Fowlie, Alain Mercy, Sara Catalano, Duncan Alexander, Philippe Ghosez, Antoine Georges,

Andrew J. Millis, Marta Gibert, and Jean-Marc Triscone ’Length-scales of interfacial coupling

between metal-insulator phases in oxides’, Nature Materials, 19, 1182-1187, August (2020)28. Haiming Deng, Zhiyi Chen, Agnieszka Wolos´, Marcin Konczykowski, Kamil Sobczak, Jolanta

Sitnicka, Irina V. Fedorchenko, Tristan Heider, Lukasz Plucinski´, Kyungwha Park,

Alexandru B. Georgescu, Jennifer Cano, and Lia Krusin-Elbaum, ’High-temperature quantum

anomalous Hall regime in a MnBi2Te4/Bi2Te3 superlattice’ Nature Physics, 17, 36-42, August

I. Ardizzone, J. Teyssier, M. Zingl, H. U. R. Strand, O. Peil, J. Fowlie, A. B. Georgescu, S. Cata-

(2020)

29. lano, N. Bachar, A. B. Kuzmenko, M. Gibert, J.-M. Triscone, A. Georges, D. van der Marel

’Strain tuned Lifshitz transition in LaNiO3’, Phys Rev B, 102, 155148, (2020)

30. Sangjae Lee, Alex Taekyung Lee, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Gilberto Fabbris, Myung-Geun

Han, Yimei Zhu, John W. Freeland, Ankit S. Disa, Yichen Jia, Mark P. M. Dean, Frederick J.

Walker, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Charles H. Ahn, ’Strong orbital polarization in a cobaltate-titanate

oxide heterostructure’, Physical Review Letters, 123, 117201 (2019) (Open Access)

31. Alexandru B. Georgescu, Oleg Peil, Ankit Disa, Antoine Georges and Andrew J. Millis, ’Dis-

entangling lattice and electronic contributions to the metal–insulator transition from bulk vs.

layer confined RNiO3’, arXiv:1810.00480, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of

the United States of America, 116 (29) 14434-14439 (2019)

32. Alexandru B. Georgescu and Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, ’Surface piezoelectricity of (0001) sapphire’,

- arXiv:1712.03915, Physical Review Applied, 11, 064065, (2019)

33. Alexandru B Georgescu, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi ’Symmetry Breaking in Slave-Particle Methods

for the Hubbard Model’, Physical Review B 96, 165135 (2017)

34. Ankit S. Disa, Alexandru B. Georgescu, James L. Hart, Divine P. Kumah, Padraic Schafer,

Elke Arenholz, Dario A. Arena, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Mitra L. Taheri, Frederick J. Walker,

Charles H. Ahn, ’Control of hidden ground state order in NdNiO3 superlattices’ (Editor’s

Suggestion), Physical Review Materials 1, 024410 (2017)

35. Patrick Philips, Paolo Longo, Alexandru B. Georgescu et al ’Experimental verification of

orbital engineering at the atomic scale: charge transfer and symmetry breaking in nickelate

heterostructures’, Physical Review B 95, 205131 (2017)

36. Alexandru B. Georgescu, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi ‘Generalized Slave-Particle Method for Ex-

tended Hubbard models’, Physical Review B 92, 235117 (2015)

37. H.Chen, Q.Qiao, M.S.J.Marshall, Alexandru.B.Georgescu, Ahmet Gulec, Patrick J. Philips,

Robert F. Klie, Frederick J. Walker, Charles H. Ahn, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi ‘Reversible Modu-

lation of Orbital Occupations via an Interface-Induced Polar State in Metallic Manganites’,

Nano Letters, 14 (9), pp 4965–4970 (2014)

38. Young-Jun Yu, Melinda Y. Han, St´ephane Berciaud, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Tony F. Heinz,

Louis E. Brus, Kwang S. Kim, Philip Kim ’High-resolution spatial mapping of the temperature

distribution of a Joule self-heated graphene nanoribbon’, Applied Physics Letters 99, 183105

(2011)