Andrei Manolescu
prófessor
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.
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.
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.
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).
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
Anna Sitek, Tudor Gabriel Dumitru, Sigurdur I. Erlingsson, Andrei Manolescu, Spin-orbit interaction in tubular prismatic nanowires, submitted for publication,arXiv:2506.07677 (2025).
arXiv:2405.03380.
arXiv:2206.04830.
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.
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.
