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Eva Andrei

Eva Yocheved Andrei is an American condensed matter physicist, a Distinguished Professor, and a Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on emergent properties of matter arising from the collective behavior of many particles, especially low-dimensional phenomena under low temperatures and high magnetic fields.

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Eva Andrei
EducationTel Aviv University Rutgers University
Alma materRutgers University
Scientific career
ThesisInvestigation of fourth sound propagation in He II in the presence of superflow (1981)

Eva Yocheved Andrei is an American condensed matter physicist, a Distinguished Professor, and a Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers University.1 Her research focuses on emergent properties of matter arising from the collective behavior of many particles, especially low-dimensional phenomena under low temperatures and high magnetic fields.

Education and training

Andrei was born in Bucharest, Romania.2 She received her bachelor's degree in physics from Tel Aviv University in Israel and her Ph.D. in physics from Rutgers University in the United States. After receiving her education, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Labs,3 Murray Hill NJ, and CEA Paris-Saclay.4

Career

Andrei began her independent career in 1987 as an assistant professor at Rutgers.5 One of her first major contributions was establishing the existence of a Wigner solid in a 2D electron plasma.67 More recently she has made major contributions to the study of graphene, including the detection of ballistic transport of charge carriers8 and the observation of Van Hove singularity in twisted bilayer graphene.9 Andrei's discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene1011 was one of Science magazine's top ten discoveries for the year 2009.12 Through studying moiré patterns in twisted sheets of graphene, Andrei observed the alignment of electrons which could facilitate the use of graphene in supercomputers.1314 Andrei's research has also presented the possibility that graphene could be used to cool supercomputers.1516 It has revealed new ways of making flat bands within twisted graphene17 which may be used to make superlattice structures.18 Eva Andrei received the Society of Physics Students Outstanding Teaching Award in 2014. As of January 2024, Andrei still facilitates research through Rutgers and as a postdoctoral fellow at Bell Labs. This includes experimental research19 on the systems of reduced dimensionality at high magnetic fields and low temperatures. This research has led to many discoveries in the field of superconductivity, charge density waves, and magnetism.

Selected publications

Awards and honors

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References

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  6. "Eva Y. Andrei American Academy of Arts and Sciences". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 23 September 2025.
  7. Andrei, EY; Deville, G; Glattli, DC; Williams, FIB; Paris, E; Etienne, B (1988). "Observation of a Magnetically Induced Wigner Solid". Physical Review Letters. 60 (26): 2765–2768. Bibcode:1988PhRvL..60.2765A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.2765. PMID 10038446.
  8. Du, X; Skachko, I; Barker, A; Andrei, EY (2008). "Approaching ballistic transport in suspended graphene". Nature Biotechnology. 3 (8): 491–495. arXiv:0802.2933. Bibcode:2008NatNa...3..491D. doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.199. PMID 18685637. S2CID 118441080.
  9. Li, Guohong; Luican, A.; Lopes dos Santos, J. M. B.; Castro Neto, A. H.; Reina, A.; Kong, J.; Andrei, E. Y. (2010). "Observation of Van Hove singularities in twisted graphene layers". Nature Physics. 6 (2): 109–113. arXiv:0912.2102. Bibcode:2010NatPh...6..109L. doi:10.1038/nphys1463. ISSN 1745-2481. S2CID 8626222.
  10. "Eva Y. Andrei American Academy of Arts and Sciences". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 23 September 2025.
  11. Du, X; Skachko, I; Duerr, F; Luican, A; Andrei, EY (2009). "Fractional quantum Hall effect and insulating phase of Dirac electrons in graphene". Nature. 462 (7270): 192–195. arXiv:0910.2532. Bibcode:2009Natur.462..192D. doi:10.1038/nature08522. PMID 19829294. S2CID 2927627.
  12. The News Staff (2009-12-18). "The Runners-Up". Science. 326 (5960): 1600–1607. Bibcode:2009Sci...326.1600.. doi:10.1126/science.326.5960.1600. PMID 20019253.
  13. Jiang, Yuhang; Lai, Xinyuan; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Haule, Kristjan; Mao, Jinhai; Andrei, Eva Y. (2019). "Charge order and broken rotational symmetry in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene". Nature. 573 (7772): 91–95. arXiv:1904.10153. Bibcode:2019Natur.573...91J. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1460-4. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 31365921. S2CID 198147548.
  14. Hays, Brooks (August 1, 2019). "Graphene discovery could make room-temperature superconductors possible". UPI. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  15. Duan, Junxi; Wang, Xiaoming; Lai, Xinyuan; Li, Guohong; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Zebarjadi, Mona; Andrei, Eva Y. (2016-12-13). "High thermoelectricpower factor in graphene/hBN devices". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113 (50): 14272–14276. arXiv:1607.00583. Bibcode:2016PNAS..11314272D. doi:10.1073/pnas.1615913113. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5167211. PMID 27911824.
  16. "Graphene tested as tiny 'coolers' for computer chips". Futurity. 2017-03-28. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  17. Mao, Jinhai; Milovanović, Slaviša P.; Anđelković, Miša; Lai, Xinyuan; Cao, Yang; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Covaci, Lucian; Peeters, Francois M.; Geim, Andre K.; Jiang, Yuhang; Andrei, Eva Y. (2020-08-13). "Evidence of flat bands and correlated states in buckled graphene superlattices". Nature. 584 (7820): 215–220. arXiv:2006.01660. Bibcode:2020Natur.584..215M. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2567-3. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 32788735. S2CID 219179760.
  18. Dumé, Isabelle (2020-09-07). "Flat bands appear in buckled graphene superlattices". Physics World. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  19. "The Andrei Research Group". www.physics.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
  20. "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  21. "Eva Y. Andrei American Academy of Arts and Sciences". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 23 September 2025.
  22. "2013 NAS Members and Foreign Associates Elected". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  23. "Eva Y. Andrei". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  24. "APS Physics DCMP APS Fellowship". American Physical Society. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  25. "Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
  26. Kavli Prize 2026
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