Joseph Octave Indekeu - Publications#

Publications:
In Web of Science (Core collection): 177, h-index 35, citations 6376;
In Google Scholar: 247, h-index 40, citations 8997;
For the bibliography of the Indekeu team, see https://fys.kuleuven.be/itf/groups/joi

Teaching assignments as Emeritus professor (2025-2028)
Course H01V2B General Physics 1 (1st year Bachelor of Engineering Sciences), KU Leuven
Course Phys 152 (1st year Bachelor of Engineering Sciences), Universiteit Stellenbosch, South Africa

Promoter of 10 PhD theses and 13 Master theses

Co-promoter of doctor honoris causa of KU Leuven Prof Dr Eric Mazur (Harvard University), February 2019

Top 25 key publications representative of his career:

1. J.O. Indekeu, N.V. Thu and J. Berx, Three-component Bose-Einstein condensates and wetting without walls, Physical Review A 111, 043320 (2025).
2. J.O. Indekeu and K. Koga, “Wetting and nonwetting near a tricritical point”, Physical Review Letters 129, 224501 (2022).
3. J. Berx and J.O. Indekeu, “BLUES function method applied to partial differential equations and analytic approximants for interface growth under shear”, Physical Review Research 3, 033113 (2021)
4. X. T. Wu, D. B. Abraham and J. O. Indekeu, “Apparent first-order wetting and anomalous scaling in the two-dimensional Ising model”, Physical Review Letters 116, 046101 (2016)
5. J. O. Indekeu, C.-Y. Lin, Nguyen Van Thu, B. Van Schaeybroeck and T.H. Phat, “Static interfacial properties of Bose-Einstein-condensate mixtures”, Physical Review A 91, 033615 (2015)
6. X.-M. Xu, G. Vereecke, C. Chen, G. Pourtois, S. Armini, N. Verellen, W.-K. Tsai, D.-W. Kim, E. Lee, C.-Y. Lin, P. van Dorpe, H. Struyf, F. Holsteyns, V. Moshchalkov, J. O. Indekeu and S. de Gendt, “Capturing wetting states in nanopatterned silicon”, American Chemical Society Nano 8, 885 (2014)
7. H. Hooyberghs, B. Cleuren, A. Salazar, J. O. Indekeu and C. Van den Broeck, “Efficiency at maximum power of a chemical engine”, Journal of Chemical Physics 139, 134111 (2013)
8. K. Koga, J.O. Indekeu, and B. Widom, “Infinite-Order Transitions in Density-Functional Models of Wetting”, Physical Review Letters 104, 036101 (2010)
9. A. A. Moreira, J. S. Andrade Jr., H. J. Herrmann and J. O. Indekeu, “How to make a fragile network robust and vice versa”, Physical Review Letters 102, 018701 (2009)
10. Y. Hennequin, D. G. A. L. Aarts, J. O. Indekeu, H. N. W. Lekkerkerker en D. Bonn, “Fluctuation forces and wetting layers in colloid-polymer mixtures”, Physical Review Letters 100, 178305 (2008)
11. V. F. Kozhevnikov, M. J. Van Bael, P. K. Sahoo, K. Temst, C. Van Haesendonck, A. Vantomme and J. O. Indekeu, “Observation of wetting-like phase transitions in a surface-enhanced type-I superconductor”, New Journal of Physics 9, 75 (2007)
12. C. V. Giuraniuc, J. P. L. Hatchett, J. O. Indekeu, M. Leone, I. Pérez Castillo, B. Van Schaeybroeck and C. Vanderzande, “Trading interactions for topology in scale-free networks”, Physical Review Letters 95, 098701 (2005)
13. J.O. Indekeu and B. Van Schaeybroeck, “Extraordinary Wetting Phase Diagram for Mixtures of Bose-Einstein Condensates”, Physical Review Letters 93, 210402 (2004)
14. E. Montevecchi and J.O. Indekeu, “Increasing the critical temperature of a superconductor by curving its surface”, Europhysics Letters 51, 661 (2000)
15. J.O. Indekeu and G. Fleerackers, “Logarithmic fractals and hierarchical deposition of debris”, Physica A 261, 294 (1998)
16. K. Ragil, J. Meunier, D. Broseta, J.O. Indekeu, and D. Bonn, “Experimental observation of critical wetting”, Physical Review Letters 77, 1532 (1996)
17. J.O. Indekeu and J.M.J. van Leeuwen, “Interface delocalization transition in type-I superconductors”, Physical Review Letters 75, 1618 (1995)
18. J.O. Indekeu, “Line tension at wetting”, International Journal of Modern Physics B 8, 309-345 (1994)
19. J. Rogiers and J.O. Indekeu, “Effect of gravity and confinement on phase equilibria”, Europhysics Letters 24, 21 (1993)
20. J.O. Indekeu, “Line tension near the wetting transition: results from an interface displacement model”, Physica A 183, 439 (1992)
21. M. Kardar and J.O. Indekeu, “Adsorption, and wetting transitions on rough substrates”, Europhysics Letters 12, 161 (1990)
22. J.H. Sikkenk, J.O. Indekeu, J.M.J. van Leeuwen, and E.O. Vossnack, “Molecular dynamics simulation of wetting and drying at solid-fluid interfaces”, Physical Review Letters 59, 98 (1987)
23. J.O. Indekeu and A.N. Berker, “Quadruple reentrance (NAdNAdNA1) from the frustrated spin-gas model of liquid crystals”, Physical Review A 33, 1158 (1986)
24. M.P. Nightingale and J.O. Indekeu, “Effect of criticality on wetting layers”, Physical Review Letters 54, 1824 (1985)
25. J.O. Indekeu, A. Maritan and A.L. Stella, “Renormalization group recursions by mean-field approximations”, Journal of Physics A 15, L291 (1982)

Most cited publication:
D. Bonn, J. Eggers, J.O. Indekeu, J. Meunier, and E. Rolley, “Wetting and spreading”, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 739 (2009); #citations = 2559 (WoS), journal impact factor = 50.49