Mona Inesa Berciu is a Romanian-Canadian theoretical condensed matter physicist whose research involves electromagnetic effects in materials, including ferromagnetism, superconductivity, magnetic semiconductors, photonic band gaps, polarons, spintronics, and the quantum Hall effect.
[1] Berciu represented Romania in the 1989 International Physics Olympiad,[2] earning an honorable mention and a prize for the best female competitor.
She came to the University of Toronto for graduate study in physics, earned a master's degree in 1995, and completed her Ph.D. in 1999.
Her dissertation, A microscopic model for non-Fermi-liquid behavior and charge carrier pairing in a purely repulsive 2D electron system, was supervised by Sajeev John.
[3] The Canadian Association of Physicists gave Berciu their 2013 CAP Medal for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Physics, "in recognition of for her exceptional ability to communicate knowledge and understanding and lead students to high academic achievement in physics through her own example, for her leading role in the Welcome Women (WOW) initiative to recruit female students and for her efforts to generally improve the quality of physics teaching through such work as undertaken by the Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative.