Prof. Andrei Manolescu

Department of Engineering, Reykjavik University, Reykjavik, Iceland

Andrei Manolescu is currently a Professor at Reykjavik University. He studied at the University of Bucharest between 1978 and 1983, graduating with a diploma in Nuclear Reactors and Theoretical Nuclear Physics. In 1992 he received the doctoral degree from the Institute of Atomic Physics, Bucharest, with a thesis on response and correlation functions in quantum many-body systems, supervised by Dr. Andrei Mezincescu and Prof. Gheorghe Ciobanu. From 1983 to 1985, he worked in the nuclear industry at the Machine-Tools Factory in Bucharest, and from 1985 he held a research position at the National Institute of Materials Physics, Bucharest. Between 1995 and 2002, he was Associate Member at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. In 1999 he began working as a research scientist at Decode Genetics, Reykjavik, and in 2008 he moved to the Department of Engineering at Reykjavik University.

His research is on theoretical modelling and numerical calculations of electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures, including effects of magnetic fields, many-body Coulomb phenomena, electrical conductivity, and charge dynamics in perovskite materials. His current research interests include nanowires with internal structure and proximity-induced superconductivity, silicon nanowires for gas-sensing applications, and the many-body physics of electrons in vacuum nanodiodes. While working at Decode Genetics (1999–2007), he conducted statistical analyses of human genetic data and contributed to the discovery of genetic risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and cancer.

Since 2013, he has served as Director of the Nanophysics Center at Reykjavik University. In 2016, he received the Reykjavik University Research Award. In 2024, he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania, in recognition of his collaborative research in human genetics. He has contributed to more than 250 ISI-indexed publications in theoretical or applied physics, and human genetics.