Eva Y.
Andrei

Eva Y. Andrei is a Romanian-born American physicist at Rutgers University, where she is a Distinguished Professor and a Board of Governors Professor. She moved to Israel during her school years and remained there through her undergraduate studies in physics at Tel Aviv University, before relocating to the United States for graduate school.

After earning her PhD from Rutgers University in 1982 with a thesis on the properties of helium II with Michael Stephen, she held a postdoctoral position at Bell Labs followed by a visiting appointment at the French Atomic Energy Commission in Paris Saclay. During this period, Andrei and her collaborators reported the first observation of a magnetically induced Wigner solid in a two-dimensional electron system.

In 1987, Andrei returned to Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor, beginning a long career marked by influential contributions to the physics of correlated electron systems. Following the discovery of graphene, she focused much of her research on this material, reporting results that include ballistic electron transport, the fractional quantum Hall effect, and the presence of Van Hove singularities in twisted bilayers.

Her work has been recognised with numerous honours, including the French CEA Medal of Physics and the Mildred Dresselhaus Prize in Nanoscience and Nanomaterials from the American Physical Society. She is a fellow of several scientific organisations, among them the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society.