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 In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors that emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole. Emergence ...

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. 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, Murray Hill NJ, and

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Career

Andrei began her independent career in 1987 as an assistant professor at Rutgers. One of her first major contributions was establishing the existence of a Wigner solid in a 2D electron plasma. More recently she has made major contributions to the study of graphene, including the detection of ballistic transport of charge carriers and the observation of Van Hove singularity in twisted bilayer graphene. Andrei's discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene was one of ''Science'' magazine's top ten discoveries for the year 2009. Through studying moiré patterns in twisted sheets of graphene, Andrei observed the alignment of electrons which could facilitate the use of graphene in supercomputers. Andrei's research has also presented the possibility that graphene could be used to cool supercomputers. It has revealed new ways of making flat bands within twisted graphene which may be used to make superlattice structures. 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 research 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 Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic flux fields are expelled from the material. Any material exhibiting these properties is a superconductor. Unlike ...

, charge density waves, and

magnetism Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that are mediated by a magnetic field, which refers to the capacity to induce attractive and repulsive phenomena in other entities. Electric currents and the magnetic moments of elementary particles ...

Selected publications

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Awards and honors

*Fellow of the

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

(2013) *Fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

(2010) *Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012) *Fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

*Rutgers University Trustees Award for Excellence in Research *French CEA medal of physics *Mildred Dresselhaus Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomaterials (2023) *Society of Physics Students Outstanding Teaching Award (2014)

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Oral history interview, conducted December 27, 2016
{{DEFAULTSORT:Andrei, Eva Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Scientists from Bucharest Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Rutgers University faculty Tel Aviv University alumni Rutgers University alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society Condensed matter physicists