Alexandru CARABOGDAN, PhD student of the Physics Doctoral School of the University of Bucharest, co-supervised by Prof. Vlad-Andrei ANTOHE (MDEO) within the joint doctoral program between the University of Bucharest and UCLouvain (Belgium), received two distinctions in September 2026, at two different conferences.

At the 23^rd Colloquium Louis Néel (CLN 2026, the French Conference on Magnetism, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 8–11 September) he was awarded the Best Poster Prize, and two weeks later, at the 9^th International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Materials Engineering (EmergeMAT 2026, Bucharest, Romania, 22–23 September), his oral presentation took First Place in the Young Scientist Award competition, Section 1 – Materials for Energy. Both the oral talk and the poster highlighted aspects of the studies on the influence of diameter and annealing on the electrical and thermoelectric properties of electrochemically grown Bi_0.89Sb_0.11 crossed nanowires.

These studies address a specific objective of his thesis, namely the development of flexible thermoelectric devices based on networks of interconnected Bi-Sb nanowires, and were carried out at the Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences (IMCN) of UCLouvain, as well as at the MDEO Center of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Bucharest, with the results recently published in Applied Physics Letters.

Warm congratulations, Alexandru!

The two awards were also announced on the IMCN and the Faculty of Physics websites.
His PhD thesis, currently in progress, is listed on the Doctoral programs page.

Photo: IMCN, UCLouvain.