Háskólinn í Reykjavík

Education

1989-1992: Doctorate at the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, thesis on response and correlation functions in quantum many-body systems. Doctor in Physics, since 1992.

1978-1983: University of Bucharest (Romania), Faculty of Physics.

Career

2008 - present: School of Science and Engineering, Reykjavik University.

1999 - 2007: Research Scientist at Decode Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland.

1985 - 1999: Research Scientist at the National Institute of Materials Physics, Bucharest.

1990 - 1999: Guest scientist at:
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy),
Max-Planck-Institut fur Festkörperforschung Stuttgart (Germany),
Science Institute of the University of Iceland,
Bilkent University, Ankara (Turkey),
University of Regensburg (Germany).

1983 - 1985: Physicist at Machine-Tools Factory, Bucharest.

Teaching Outside RU

2001 - 2002: Physics of semiconductor electronic devices for electrical engineers, University of Iceland, together with Hafliði Gíslason and Jón Tómas Guðmundsson.

1998 - 2003: Many-body physics in condensed matter, transport theory, and statistical physics, University of Iceland, reading courses for master students.

1986-1987: Quantum mechanics, University of Bucharest.

Honors & Grants

Awards

2016 Reykjavik University Research Award

Doctor Honoris Causa at Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania, for common research in human genetics (since April 2024).

Grants

Rannis Excellence Grant, Computational center for design of materials and devices, project 090025011 (2009-2011, co-applicant).

Reykjavik University Development Fund - research project T09001 (2009-2010, PI).

Rannis Project Grant "Coulomb interaction and current flow in quantum devices", project 100008021 (2010-2012, PI).

Rannis Equipment Fund „Computer cluster for multidisciplinary scientific research“, project 110089-0031 (2011, PI).

Rannis Project Grant „Properties of microscopic vacuum electronic devices“ (2011-2014, co-applicant, PI Ágúst Valfells).

Representative of Iceland in the European COST actions TERA-MIR Radiation: Materials, Generation, Detection and Applications (MP1204) and Thermodynamics in quantum regime (MP1209).

Leader of Reykjavik University teams in two EEA-Romania grants (2014-2017): „Perovskites for Photovoltaic Efficient Conversion Technology“ and „Genetic epidemiology of cancer in Romania“

Landsvirkjun project grants, Photovoltaics and thermovoltaics with Silicon nanowires (2013 and 2016, co-applicant, PI Halldór G. Svavarsson.)

Rannis Infrastructure Fund, High performance computer (2015, co-applicant, PI Hannes Jónsson)

Rannis Project Grant, Core-shell nanoantennas (2016, PI).

Rannis Project Grant, DC vacuum-microdiode arrays as tunable THz sources (2017, co-applicant, PI Ágúst Valfells.)

Rannis Infrastructure Fund, IHPC-computer cluster and expansion equipment (2017, co-applicant, PI Vidar Gudmundsson; 2018, co-applicant, PI Henning Arnór Úlfarsson; 2019, co-applicant, PI Egill Skúlason, 2020 co-applicant, PI Vidar Gudmundsson)

US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR), Molecular dynamics simulations for emission and propagation of electrons in cathode nanostructures, co-aplicant, PI Ágúst Valfells (2018)

Representative of RU in the EEA Grant Integrated Applied Genetics Training, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy and Exigia Medical from Romania and Reykjavik University (2018-2020)

Rannis Project Grant, Thermoelectric transport in core-shell nanowires (2019, PI).

Rannis Student Innovation Fund, Molecular Dynamics of Perovskite Solar Cells (2020, PI)

Leader of Reykjavik University team in the EEA-Romania grants „Towards perovskite large area photovoltaics“ (2020-2023).

Sustainability Institute Forum and Landvirkjun, Atomistic studies of organo-halide materials for photovoltaics, PhD student grant Rachel Brophy (2020-2021), silicon nanowires as humidity and gas sensor for environmental applications, with Halldór Svavarsson (2022).

Reykjavik University Infrastructure Fund, Optical Table (2021), UV Laser (2022), Sputter-Coater (2024).

Publications

Complete publication record:

https://scholar.google.is/citations?user=laULmZoAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/830171

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0713-4664

Recent publications

Anna Sitek, Tudor Gabriel Dumitru, Sigurdur I. Erlingsson, Andrei Manolescu, Spin-orbit interaction in tubular prismatic nanowires, submitted for publication,arXiv:2506.07677 (2025).

Anna Sitek, Tudor Gabriel Dumitru, Sigurdur I. Erlingsson, Andrei Manolescu, Spin-orbit interaction in square core-shell nanowires, ICTON 2025 Barcelona, july 2025, IEEE Xplore Digital Library https://xplorestaging.ieee.org/document/11125147 (2025)

arXiv:2506.02769

Amanda Teodora Pred, Iulia Ghiua, Lucian Ion, Ulrich Wulf, Andrei Manolescu, George Alexandru Nemnes, Implementation of a multi-terminal quantum sorter in solid state systems, Scientific Reports, 15 23738 (2025).

Farah Basarić, Vladan Brajović, Gerrit Behner, Kristof Moors, William Schaarman, Andrei Manolescu, Raghavendra Juluri, Ana M. Sanchez, Jin Hee Bae, Hans Lüth, Detlev Grützmacher, Alexander Pawlis, Thomas Schäpers, Aharonov-Bohm and Altshuler-Aronov-Spivak oscillations in the quasi-ballistic regime in phase-pure GaAs/InAs core/shell nanowires, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B, arXiv:2503.06789 (2025).

Ivan P Miranda, Grzegorz J Kwiatkowski, Cecilia M Holmqvist, Carlo M Canali, Igor S Lobanov, Valery M Uzdin, Andrei Manolescu, Pavel F Bessarab, Sigurður I Erlingsson, Optimal magnetization switching via spin-orbit torque on the surface of a topological insulator, npj Spintronics 3, 21 (2025), arXiv:2406.09287.

Muhammad Taha Sultan, Elham Fakhri, Paulina Powroźnik, Andrei Manolescu, Wieslaw Jakubik, Anna Kazmierczak-Balata and Halldór Guðfinnur Svavarsson, Silicon Nanowire-Based Ammonia Gas Sensor with Enhanced Response at Elevated Humidity Levels, Semiconductor Science and Technology 40, 035011 (2025).

Muhammad Taha Sultan, Anca Dumitru, Elham Fakhri, Rachel Brophy, Snorri Thorgeir Ingvarsson, Andrei Manolescu, Halldor Gudfinur Svavarsson, Fabrication and application of SiNWs based PANI:MOx heterostructures for human respiratory monitoring, Journal of Semiconductors 46, 1 (2025), arXiv:2406.06779 .

Anca G. Mirea, Ioana D. Vlaicu, Sarah Derbali, Florentina Neatu, Andrei G. Tomulescu, Cristina Besleaga, Monica Enculescu, Andrei C. Kuncser, Alexandra C. Iacoban, Nicolae Filipoiu, Marina Cuzminschi, George A. Nemnes, Andrei Manolescu, Mihaela Florea, Ioana Pintilie, Electron transporting bilayers for perovskite solar cells: spray coating deposition of c-TiO2/m-SnO2-quantum dots, Colloids & Surfaces A 705,135508 (2025), arXiv:2406.18261 .

Vidar Gudmundsson, Vram Mughnetsyan, Hsi-Sheng Goan, Jeng-Da Chai, Nzar Rauf Abdullah, Chi-Shung Tang, Valeriu Moldoveanu, Andrei Manolescu, Spin configuration of an array of quantum rings controlled by cavity photons, Phys. Rev. B 111, 115304 (2025), arXiv:2411.13176 .

Vidar Gudmundsson, Vram Mughnetsyan, Hsi-Sheng Goan, Jeng-Da Chai, Nzar Rauf Abdullah, Chi-Shung Tang, Valeriu Moldoveanu, Andrei Manolescu, Tuning of para-and diamagnetic cavity photon excitations in a square array of quantum dots in a magnetic field, Phys. Rev. B 110, 205301 (2024), arXiv:2409.09936 .

Nicolae Filipoiu, Marina Cuzminschi, Calin-Andrei Pantis-Simut, Kristinn Torfason, Rachel Elizabeth Brophy, Andrei Manolescu, Roxana E. Patru, Cristina Besleaga, George E. Stan, Ioana Pintilie, George Alexandru Nemnes, Impact of interface defects on the band alignment and performance of TiO2/MAPI/Cu2O perovskite solar cells, submitted for publication, arXiv:2406.19594 (2024).

Mihaela Cosinschi, Amanda Preda, Calin-Andrei Pantis-Simut, Nicolae Filipoiu, Ioan Ghitiu, Mihnea Dulea, Lucian Ion, Andrei Manolescu, and George Alexandru Nemnes, Collective dynamics of Ca atoms encapsulated in C60 endohedral fullerenes, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) 33, 22090 (2024).

M.T. Sultan, M. L. Ciurea, I. Stavarache, K. A. Thórarinsdóttir, U. B. Arnalds, V. Teodorescu, A. Manolescu, S. Ingvarsson, and H. G. Svavarsson, Optimizing Photocurrent Intensity in Layered SiGe Heterostructures, Semiconductor Science and Technology 39, 105007 (2024).

Muhammad Taha Sultan, Ionel Stavarache, Andrei Manolescu, Unnar Bjarni Arnalds, Valentin Serban Teodorescu, Halldor Gudfinnur Svavarsson, Snorri Ingvarsson, and Magdalena Lidia Ciurea, Optimizing SiGe-SiO2 visible-short-wave infrared photoresponse by modulating interplay between strain and defects through annealing, Advanced Photonics Research 5, 2300316 (2024).

Hallmann Oskar Gestsson, Andrei Manolescu, Jens H. Bardarson, Sigurdur I. Erlingsson, Anisotropic transport properties in prismatic topological insulator nanowires, Phys. Rev. B 110, 115307 (2024),
arXiv:2405.03380.

Vidar Gudmundsson, Vram Mughnetsyan, Hsi-Sheng Goan, Jeng-Da Chai, Nzar Rauf Abdullah, Chi-Shung Tang, Valeriu Moldoveanu, Andrei Manolescu, Magneto-optical properties of a quantum dot array interacting with a far-infrared photon mode of a cylindrical cavity, Phys. Rev. B 109, 235306 (2024), arXiv:2403.10027 .

Rachel Elizabeth Brophy, Benjamin Junker, Elham Aghabalei Fakhri, Hákon Örn Árnason, Halldór Guðfinnur Svavarsson, Udo Weimar, Nicolae Bârsan, Andrei Manolescu, Ultra Responsive NO₂ silicon nanowires gas sensor, Sensors and Actuators: B. Chemical 410, 135648 (2024).

Amanda Teodora Preda, Calin-Andrei Pantis-Simut, Mihai Marciu, Dragos-Victor Anghel, Alaa Allosh, Lucian Ion, Andrei Manolescu, George Alexandru Nemnes, Design of nanoscale quantum interconnects aided by conditional generative-adversarial networks, Applied Sciences 14, 1111 (2024).

Vram Mughnetsyan, Vidar Gudmundsson, Nzar Rauf Abdullah, Chi-Shung Tang, Valeriu Moldoveanu, Andrei Manolescu, Magnetic properties of a cavity-embedded square lattice of quantum dots or antidots, Annalen der Physik 536, 2300274 (2024) arXiv:2306.06765 .

H. Gramizadeh, D. R. Candido, A. Manolescu, J. C. Egues, S. I. Erlingsson, Efficient method to calculate energy spectra for analyzing magneto-oscillations, Phys. Rev. B 109, 115303 (2024) arXiv:2306.02503 .

H. Ö. Árnason, K. Torfason, A. Manolescu, Á. Valfells, Simulation of short pulse photoemission in a micro-diode with implications for optimal beam brightness, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 71, 2084 (2024) arXiv:2301.06123.

E. A. Fakhri, M. T. Sultan, A. Manolescu, S. Ingvarsson, H. G. Svavarsson, Application of p and n-type silicon nanowires as human respiratory sensing device, Sensors 23, 9901 (2023).

R. E. Brophy, M. Kateb, I. Ghitiu, N. Filipoiu, K. Torfason, H. G. Svavarsson, G. A. Nemnes, I. Pintilie, A. Manolescu, OH^- ions can reduce the iodide migration in MAPI, 2023 International Semiconductor Conference (CAS), Sinaia, Romania, IEEE Xplore Digital Library https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10303698 (2023).

A. Sitek, A. Manolescu, Low-energy electronic states in tubular wires, ICTON 2023 Bucharest, IEEE Xplore Digital Library https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10207280 (2023).

V. Gudmundsson, V. Mughnetsyan, N. R. Abdullah, C.-S. Tang, V. Moldoveanu, A. Manolescu, Controlling the excitation spectrum of a quantum dot array with a photon cavity, Phys. Rev. B 108, 115306 (2023), arXiv:2305.11544.

R. E. Brophy, M. Kateb, K. Torfason, G. A. Nemnes, H. G. Svavarsson, I. Pintilie, A. Manolescu, Effect of pressure on the dynamics of iodine defects in MAPI: An atomistic simulation, J. Phys. Chem. C 127, 7938 (2023), arXiv:2302.05696 .

M. Kateb and A. Manolescu, Distinct melting behavior of partially oxidized Cu nanoparticles and nanowires, submitted for publication, arXiv:2302.02219(2023).

H. R. Heris, K.O. Klausen, A. Sitek, S. I. Erlingsson, and A. Manolescu, Effect of impurities on charge and heat transport in tubular nanowires, Nanotechnology 34, 335401 (2023), arXiv:2302.02164.

C. -A. Pantis-Simut, A. T. Preda, L. Ion, A. Manolescu, G. A. Nemnes, Mapping confinement potentials and charge densities of interacting quantum systems using conditional generative adversarial networks, Machine Learning: Science and Technology 4, 025023 (2023), arXiv:2301.02122.

K. O. Klausen, A. Sitek, S. I. Erlingsson, A. Manolescu, Electron-hole coherence in core-shell nanowires with partial proximity induced superconductivity, Phys. Rev. B 107, 035423 (2023), arXiv:2206.04830.

N. R. Abdullah, H. O. Rashid, A. Manolescu, V. Gudmundsson, Interaction effects in a two-dimensional AlSi6P nanosheet: A first-principles study on the electronic, mechanical, thermal, and optical properties, Physica B: Condensed Matter 652, 414627 (2023), arXiv:2108.00387.

N. R. Abdullah, Y. H. Azeez, B. J. Abdullah, H. O. Rashid, A. Manolescu, V. Gudmundsson, Role of planar buckling to the electronic, thermal, and optical properties of Germagraphene nanosheets, Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 153, 107163 (2023), arXiv:2210.04247.

N. Filipoiu, Anca G. Mirea, Sarah Derbali, C. -A. Pantis-Simut, D. -V. Anghel, A. Manolescu, Ioana Pintilie, Mihaela Florea, G. A. Nemnes, Optoelectronic and stability properties of quasi-2D alkylammonium based perovskites, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 25, 3323 (2023), arXiv:2210.04596 .

K. O. Klausen, A. Sitek, S. I. Erlingsson, A. Manolescu, Flux-periodic oscillations in proximitized core-shell nanowires, Nanotechnology 34, 345001 (2023), arXiv:2209.13076.

Services

Reviewer for Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, and other physics journals.

Development of the physics labs at the School of Science and Engineering.

Chair of the Research Council of Reykjavik University between 2013-2015.

Other websites

https://www.ru.is/en/research-center/nano

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