I am blessed to interact with students as wonderful as Megan, and am grateful for both that, and the memorial drawing she made for my late wife, Ayinka. alexbgeorgescu.com/science/2026...

New end of year group pictures!

🎉Congratulations to our first year Ph.D student Madison Genslinger for being *the only* NSF GRFP winner in Materials Theory this year in the US 🎉 ! And congratulations to our alumna Emily Ward for winning an NSF GRFP in Chemistry of Materials working on theory & synthesis!

If you are at #APS2026 and interested in correlated electron materials, Varsha Kumari (Room 601, 5:42), will talk about or DOE project Thursday. Friday 9am (Room 201): Varsha on trimer formation, then Madison Genslinger on real-space bonding analysis in quantum materials.

We welcome Dr. Shimin Zhang as a Postdoctoral Scholar in our group. 🎉 She comes to us from Prof. Yuan Ping's group at U Wisconsin-Madison, and brings a wealth of experience in quantum many-body methods as applied to quantum impurities in solids, and photoluminescence.

Thankful for the support from the Department of Energy 🎉! news.iu.edu/college/live...

Chemistry’s Georgescu group awarded Dept. Of Energy Early Career Research Program award

The Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded an Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award to the Georgescu group, headed by Alexandru B. Georgescu, assista...

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Passed by the office and took the grad students on a surprise lunch & asked them to practice their APS elevator pitch. Left to right: Varsha Kumari , me, Madison Genslinger, Md. Rajbanul Akhond.

Great overview and imo great for new students in electronic structure: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Metallic Oxides and the Overlooked Role of Bandwidth

Oxides exhibiting metallic conduction are crucial for various applications, including fuel cells, battery electrodes, resistive and magnetoresistive materials, electrocatalysts, transparent conductors...

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Nice article on our oxide work with quotes from our newest grad students! news.iu.edu/college/live...

Chemistry professor wins prestigious Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellence in Research

Alexandru B Georgescu, assistant professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences was recently awarded the Oxide Electronics Prize for Exce...

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Happy to announce that our group received a Department of Energy Early Career Research Program (DoE ECRP) award (Correlated Electron Materials with Novel Quantum Building Blocks, DOE DE-SC0026069; of 875K/5years) through the Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics program 🎉.

After the success of the 'tips on how to get a faculty job' videos (1.5K views on one of them 🎉 , and two invited talks on the topic!), I thought I would add a video with a few tips on my first few years on the tenure track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cgy...

A Few Tips for the First Few years on the Tenure Track in the sciences/engineering @ R1s

YouTube video by Alexandru B Georgescu

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With the group members who are volunteering at ScienceFest! Madison Genslinger, Bipasha Samanta, and Varsha Kumari . The roses are meant to be dunked in liquid nitrogen and shattered 😬.

Many congratulations to Varsha Kumari , our PhD student (co-advised with @saraskrabalak.bsky.social ) who gave an amazing talk and an excellent closed door examination - as her entire committee agreed. 🎉 Very proud of you Varsha.

Come this Tuesday, October 21st at 4pm to see Varsha Kumari's talk, who will present her theory from our group and experiment in Sara Skrabalak's group, spanning correlated electrons from molecular orbitals and photoluminescence from lone pairs in solids! events.iu.edu/event/200948...

Varsha Kumari - Materials Seminar

Molecular Orbital and Lone Pair Effects in Metal Halide and Oxyhalide Materials

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🎉 Congrats to Varsha Kumari & Julia Bauer on our paper, “Molecular Orbital Symmetry-Driven Trimer Formation in Kagome Correlated Electron Materials,” accepted in RSC Materials Chemistry C! 👏 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #MaterialsScience #QuantumMaterials #Chemistry

🎉 Honored to receive the 2025 Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellence in Research at #iWOE in Banff, Canada! Grateful to my mentors, mentees & collaborators. This recognition reflects years of shared work on correlated materials & superlattices. Thanks to @jenf.bsky.social for the pics!

We are happy to welcome Dr Mai Nguyen as a postdoctoral scholar into our group 🎉 ! She comes to us from UT Austin, and brings a wealth of expertise in electronic structure methods, including for high entropy alloy nanoparticles, battery materials, ionic transport and more!

New group picture.

We are searching for a new postdoc to join us. Plane wave DFT plus teach us something new (battery materials? Correlated electrons? Nanoparticles?) www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

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In work led by undergraduate student Emily Ward, we show how to build Wannier functions that allow visualization and interpretation of lone pairs in a solid, as well as complex bonding interactions in metal oxyhalides. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... Image: a lone pair in BiOCl.

My video on correlated electron materiasl has reached nearly 4K views! Glad so many people found it useful: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp_f...

Intro To Correlated Electron Physics

YouTube video by Alexandru B Georgescu

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Many thanks to Bipasa Samanta, the postdoc in our group, who performed the calculations and taught me about the connection between bond angles in perovskites and conjugation in organic molecules, and to Ricardo for inviting us to this collaboration.

Ricardo Javier Vázquez@tripletstatesguy.bsky.social · last yr.

Do you want to know how to develop water-soluble qubits operable in biologically relevant media? Look no further! 🔥 Thanks to @alexandrubg.bsky.social and Aliaksandra Lisouskaya (from ND) for their contributions to this manuscript. 🔗: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

New work with my postdoc Bipasa Samanta on superconducting nickelates. After showing a remarkably strong correlation between in-plane Ni-O-Ni bond angles and Tc in La3Ni2O7, we investigate the effects of other factors (strain, correlations, layer number) on the likely Tc. arxiv.org/abs/2506.11427

We congratulate Varsha Kumari for winning a teaching award. She did a wonderful job teaching with me Intro to physical chemistry and the Surface Chemistry class. In one evaluation, a student answered the question 'How can she improve?' by saying 'Nothing. She's doing amazing'.

Awesome job Varsha Kumari and Bipasa Samanta presenting your work with a talk on trimer formation in Kagome materials and a poster on superconducting nickelates at the Midwest theoretical chemistry conference in Detroit!

🎉 Congrats to the MRS Student Chapter at Indiana University MRS at IU especially 2024–25 President @michaelakloveless.bsky.social , for earning a mini-grant for Bringing SMILES! They'll 3D print glowing toys & teach photoluminescence at Science Fest this fall! 💡🧸 #SciComm #MRS

New work led by our excellent PhD student Varsha Kumari (with early contributions from Julia Bauer, now at Yale): we show that triangular cluster formation in Kagome multiferroics is driven by trimer orbital symmetry & intermediate correlation strength. arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13659

Happy to have contributed to this complex collaborative work - now in PRX - showing that infinite layer nickelate superconductors may be more different from cuprates than we thought: they may be superconducting even in the absence of doping: journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...

Superconductivity in the Parent Infinite-Layer Nickelate ${\mathrm{NdNiO}}_{2}$

Undoped NdNiO${}_{2}$ exhibits superconductivity up to 11 K, challenging the assumption that doping is essential in layered nickelate superconductors.

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Congratulations to our student Emily Ward, who graduated with the highest award from the department, and pursued both theory and experiment as an undergraduate student. Her curiosity, drive, and kindness will be missed. We wish her good luck during her Phd at Princeton!

Last day of volunteering at IU Care Week. It was maybe as helpful for me as it was for the students: I could feel helpful without handing out work/assignments/grades. Just bagels and cream cheese, no added pressure or stress on anybody. And if you know me you know I love feeding people 😬😂.