https://alexbgeorgescu.com/foodandrecipes daily 0.75 2022-06-11 https://alexbgeorgescu.com/foodandrecipes/2022/6/11/a-sourdough-recipe-for-complete-beginniers monthly 0.5 2022-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/67058020-28bd-4e53-b292-292381387e44/Screen+Shot+2022-06-11+at+2.38.52+PM.png Food & Recipes - A Sourdough Recipe For Complete Beginners - Make it stand out Bread I made following this improvised method. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/8a0f5088-8011-4fa3-9164-b5f6056dd569/PXL_20220421_151622139.MP.jpg Food & Recipes - A Sourdough Recipe For Complete Beginners - Make it stand out Your sourdough starter is ready to use when it doubles regularly after each feeding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/744f6b1f-435a-4a0f-b9cd-569574dbe1e7/Screen+Shot+2022-06-11+at+3.21.26+PM.png Food & Recipes - A Sourdough Recipe For Complete Beginners - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/99f1f822-42f8-4036-9eaf-7e34feef9e5b/Screen+Shot+2022-06-11+at+2.38.52+PM.png Food & Recipes - A Sourdough Recipe For Complete Beginners - Make it stand out Same bread as at the beginning, can’t end the post with an image of an uncooked bread :) https://alexbgeorgescu.com/foodandrecipes/2022/5/21/quick-ramen-like-eggs-stuff-to-do-with-leftover-easter-eggs monthly 0.5 2022-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/12b24d4a-db40-4020-be94-4ad64746926d/PXL_20220430_182713558.jpeg Food & Recipes - Quick Ramen-like Eggs (Stuff to do with leftover Easter eggs) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/foodandrecipes/2020/5/13/curry-chickpeas-chana monthly 0.5 2022-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/1589409305007-MIHN8CXALPEX1SCII0P5/Screen+Shot+2020-05-13+at+6.33.11+PM.png Food & Recipes - Trinidadian Style Curry Chickpeas (Curry Chana) Doubles in Trinidad & Tobago: curry chana on top of a fried bara, topped with hot sauce and culantro (not cilantro!) sauce. Cost something like $1 on the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/1620692060031-AM3QQBPBN6ODGT4X8T9S/IMG_20210502_122434458.jpeg Food & Recipes - Trinidadian Style Curry Chickpeas (Curry Chana) - Make it stand out Curry chickpeas I made following this recipe, with homemade hot sauce and mango chutney, with a side of buss up shut Trinidadian roti I made for it. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/foodandrecipes/2020/3/9/brown-sugar-bubble-tea-from-tiger-sugar monthly 0.5 2020-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/1583811242953-RN446OLHL2PHDKANKJID/bubble+tea.jpeg Food & Recipes - Brown Sugar Bubble Tea from Tiger Sugar https://alexbgeorgescu.com/foodandrecipes/2017/10/15/riki-izakaya monthly 0.5 2017-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/1508099435020-GJ41LCBKAIWK3GS80OD3/Pancake.jpg Food & Recipes - Riki Izakaya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/1508099439655-B4UH1DPTUIZ7VHKB4LWQ/Tonkotsu.jpg Food & Recipes - Riki Izakaya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/1508099466930-COVQUAHVHDLOK85U4HBH/shrimp.jpg Food & Recipes - Riki Izakaya https://alexbgeorgescu.com/foodandrecipes/2017/10/14/oven-jerk-chicken monthly 0.5 2017-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/1507992946358-FJHWRJ43YKIVXVFT1032/JerkChicken.png Food & Recipes - Simple Oven Jerk Chicken Recipe https://alexbgeorgescu.com/foodandrecipes/tag/ramen monthly 0.5 https://alexbgeorgescu.com/foodandrecipes/tag/japanese monthly 0.5 https://alexbgeorgescu.com/foodandrecipes/tag/restaurant monthly 0.5 https://alexbgeorgescu.com/foodandrecipes/tag/new+york monthly 0.5 https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science daily 0.75 2026-02-17 https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2026/2/16/varsha-and-madison-accepted-at-the-international-summer-school-on-computational-quantum-materials-hosted-by-university-of-sherbrooke monthly 0.5 2026-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/07d759d0-850c-4895-b9de-0f87c4e8a044/Screenshot+2026-02-16+at+8.04.28%E2%80%AFPM.png News & Science - Varsha and Madison accepted at the International Summer School on Computational Quantum Materials hosted by University of Sherbrooke - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2025/12/30/electron-localization-basin-tools monthly 0.5 2025-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/59fa4162-48a1-45e1-9fe3-2f998ff210ef/Screenshot+2025-12-30+at+9.26.17%E2%80%AFPM.jpg News & Science - Electron Localization Basin Tools - Make it stand out A) Electron Localization Function slice through the Nb3 plane of Nb3Cl8, and B) crystal structure+electron localization basins. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2025/12/10/group-wins-department-of-energy-early-career-research-program-award monthly 0.5 2025-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/503774d3-d826-477f-b337-9ada6bb740b5/Screenshot+2025-12-10+at+10.18.08%E2%80%AFAM.png News & Science - Group Wins Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2025/10/29/varshas-excellent-qualifying-exam-and-kagome-trimer-halides-paper monthly 0.5 2025-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/2b5117b2-7b1f-434e-8723-11aeea5498d7/PXL_20251021_222101476.jpg News & Science - Varsha's Excellent Qualifying Exam and Kagome Trimer Halides Paper - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/11331d29-1e95-4657-8e6c-701f73e938ee/PXL_20251021_195308152.jpg News & Science - Varsha's Excellent Qualifying Exam and Kagome Trimer Halides Paper - Make it stand out Varsha flanked by her proud (and at least in my case, nervous) advisors before her talk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/52942ec8-07a5-4801-bd2f-415463aead82/1761090417595.jpeg News & Science - Varsha's Excellent Qualifying Exam and Kagome Trimer Halides Paper - Make it stand out Post-exam ice cream. I do not, in fact, recommend cherry wasabi as an ice cream flavor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/a76a9bbf-d485-4293-8a1b-3e44bf8ad5fd/PXL_20251021_205505707.jpg News & Science - Varsha's Excellent Qualifying Exam and Kagome Trimer Halides Paper - Make it stand out Group picture! Mai, Madison, Akhond, Alex, Varsha, Bipasa https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2025/8/21/skrabalak-and-georgescu-groups-receive-nsf-dmr-solid-state-chemistry-grant-to-study-photoluminescent-bismuth-lone-pair-materials monthly 0.5 2025-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/1150dcd2-96c9-4c0b-ac03-9f19c21b889b/Screenshot+2025-08-21+at+10.00.00%E2%80%AFPM.png News & Science - Skrabalak and Georgescu Groups Receive NSF DMR Solid State Chemistry Grant to study Photoluminescent Bismuth Lone Pair Materials - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2025/8/19/varsha-attends-ieee-ferroschool-at-oak-ridge-national-labs monthly 0.5 2025-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/fcbdda1c-2b9e-4482-a881-87598c36eaa6/Screenshot%2B2025-08-13%2Bat%2B9.56.42%E2%80%AFPM.webp News & Science - Varsha Attends IEEE Ferroschool at Oak Ridge National Labs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2025/8/1/congratulations-varsha-for-her-awards-at-the-electronic-materials-amp-applications-conference-teaching-award-and-kindig-fellowship monthly 0.5 2025-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/eeee4a01-9d14-4971-ad69-dfa01c0fd125/Varsha.jpg News & Science - Congratulations Varsha for her awards at the Electronic Materials & Applications Conference, Teaching award, and Kindig Fellowship! - Congratulations Varsha for her awards at the Electronic Materials & Applications Conference, Teaching award, and Kindig Fellowship! We congratulate Varsha for her multiple awards this year. These include a first prize for best student presentation at the Electronic Materials and Applications conference in February in Denver, a teaching award from the department for teaching with Alex this year, and a Kindig Fellowship that will help support her research during the third year of her Ph.D. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2025/8/1/congratulations-emily-and-good-luck-at-princeton monthly 0.5 2025-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/ff8a04f1-cc0b-4832-a958-78134bfd0e1a/PXL_20250510_130514026+%281%29.jpg News & Science - Congratulations Emily and Good Luck at Princeton - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2025/8/1/group-presents-at-pindu-november-2024 monthly 0.5 2025-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/4203d52a-c9b2-457d-86cd-13dcfeb31db7/1730591692262-1536x1152.jpeg News & Science - Group presents at PINDU, November 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/8fff58d1-d57c-44d7-9972-dd8f68fa2fb0/1733869006247.jpeg News & Science - Group presents at PINDU, November 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2022/8/13/paradim-johns-hopkins-universitycornell-university-summer-school-talk monthly 0.5 2022-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/692efd4d-44a1-4292-aa90-ef227b116454/FZLFolkXkAEcbuX.jpeg News & Science - PARADIM Johns Hopkins University/Cornell University Summer School Talk - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2022/7/26/chemical-bonding-concepts-in-solids monthly 0.5 2022-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/c62faeca-a33d-4f50-bba9-c39ef3b3e069/Screen+Shot+2022-07-26+at+11.12.13+PM.png News & Science - Chemical Bonding Concepts in Solids - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2022/7/4/an-introduction-to-correlated-electron-materials-youtube-video monthly 0.5 2022-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/36c7d49a-1101-4d64-9760-07ca3dd3f689/Screen+Shot+2022-07-04+at+7.04.46+PM.png News & Science - An Introduction to Correlated Electron Materials - youtube video - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2022/3/22/trigonal-symmetry-and-its-electronic-effects-in-2d-halides-and-other-materials monthly 0.5 2022-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/94e67a57-4813-48ec-b464-c0340ca13140/Screen+Shot+2022-03-13+at+10.29.17+PM.png News & Science - Trigonal Symmetry and its Electronic Effects in 2D Halides and Other Materials - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2020/8/10/new-post-coming-soon monthly 0.5 2020-08-10 https://alexbgeorgescu.com/main2 daily 1.0 2025-12-27 https://alexbgeorgescu.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/322ba385-4ce2-478f-9f1a-6bd00e36583b/PXL_20250718_151610843.jpg The Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/834f8cf1-abc6-4a71-9e15-0eaeafa85e9a/bc79c587-3332-499a-866c-a331d6e3939c.jpeg The Group - Make it stand out Group lunch at Turkuaz, July 2025. From bottom left, clockwise: Varsha, Bipasa, Madison, Akhond, Alex. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/0df66c48-7d29-4666-8237-16c27ac3beb5/Screen+Shot+2022-08-02+at+11.36.08+PM.png The Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/986b7660-132c-4d2f-a7aa-7d6292e40f39/Mai+Nguyen.jpeg The Group - Dr. Mai H. Nguyen (Postdoctoral Scholar, Sept 2025-Present) Ph.D, UT Austin, Chemistry. Correlated electron materials & Ion transport; High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/8aad768b-a199-4000-9697-68908b7a429d/Screenshot+2026-02-28+at+12.25.15%E2%80%AFPM.png The Group - Dr Shimin Zhang (Postdoctoral Scholar, March 2026- Present) Ph.D UWisconsin-Madison, Materials Science and Engineering & Physics. Quantum Many Body approaches to materials beyond DFT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/5c1614d2-63b5-492c-9ae4-678fa2c19924/Screenshot+2025-08-01+at+5.59.39%E2%80%AFPM.png The Group - Dr. Bipasa Samanta, Postdoc (Feb 2024-Present) Ph.D, IIT Bombay. Correlated Electron Materials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/4a3df40f-3d6a-4656-a962-d995f4f548c4/Screenshot+2025-08-13+at+9.56.42%E2%80%AFPM.png The Group - Varsha Kumari, Ph.D Student (December 2023-Present) Ph.D student; working on Correlated Electron Materials and Photoluminescent Materials. Among other awards she’s gotten so far, she has also won an exceptional teaching assistant award, Kindig fellowship, and best talk at the Electronic Materials and Applications award in Denver; she also represented our group at Oak Ridge National Labs’ IEEE FerroSchool in 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/fd3cb26e-0b22-4d71-bde4-2c5e64530268/Akhond-1.png The Group - Md Rajbanul Akhond (Ph.D Student, Dec 2024-Present) High throughput materials discovery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/c50a87a3-7de2-472c-9710-2d6f73ba1d3b/20250805_115839.jpg The Group - Madison Genslinger (Ph.D Student, July 2025-Present) Correlated Electron Cluster & Photoluminescent Materials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/d1080cfa-cf6c-46dc-946c-485e900c8f23/IMG_1197-700x933.jpg The Group - Carina Jacobson (UG, Purdue University - Physics, June 2024-Present) He doping correlated electron materials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/74d7946f-6f23-4350-b21c-63fc9db08028/ACS.23.Headshot.2.jpeg The Group - Emily Ward, Undergraduate Student (August 2023-May 2025) IU Bloomington Chemistry, Math and Spanish. Pursuing a Ph.D at Princeton in Chemistry. During her stay in our group, Emily won probably most awards our department can offer, including the ACS inorganic chemistry award, Schwarzkopf award for strongest graduating undergrad. She also published this wonderful work allowing the direct visualization of lone pairs in a solid for the first time: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7639/adc33e/meta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/b6f768f8-94ee-42ce-a7b6-500006927f02/Harshul.jpg The Group - Harshul Bhatt (Undergraduate) (May 2024-Aug 2024), Undergraduate Student at IIT Bombay (Engineering Physics Major), joining through the IU Bloomington – IIT Bombay summer program. Continued performing research in materials science and machine learning at IIT Bombay following the summer program. Continued to a Master's program in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) Main Project: Machine learning for quantum materials’ discovery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/aa5add2b-104a-4fe5-b0f9-668d4f5bc1de/Screen-Shot-2023-07-26-at-9.23.38-PM-700x700.png The Group - Julia Bauer, Undergraduate Student (Summer 2022) Julia Bauer (Summer 2022 REU), Undergraduate student at Davidson College. Received a Smith scholarship from Davidson College to pursue an MS at the University of Edinburgh 2023-2024; currently pursuing a Ph.D in Applied Physics at Yale University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/a8584fd1-5aac-465b-af27-3f88b717487b/PeiwenRen.png The Group - Peiwen Ren (Undergraduate) (Fall 2020-Spring 2021), Northwestern University (co-mentored with James Rondinelli) Undergraduate student majoring in Materials Science and Engineering. Continued to pursue a Master’s at Stanford University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/86d3af02-d871-4ce5-be5c-ef2d98f69223/ChrisBean.png The Group - Christopher Bean (Research Experience for Teachers) (Summer 2020, through Research Experience for Teachers, co-mentored with James Rondinelli). Proceeded to pursue a Ph.D in Materials Science at UIUC. https://alexbgeorgescu.com/researchvision daily 0.75 2023-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59cdb86bf6576e05c30fcc54/7d0798e7-381e-479c-b695-1da419264a18/Fig2R2.png Our Research