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| Andrea Young | |
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| Name | Andrea Young |
| Birth date | 1970s |
| Birth place | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Occupation | Physicist; Materials scientist; Professor |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard University |
| Workplaces | Columbia University; University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University |
| Known for | Research on two-dimensional materials; graphene; transition metal dichalcogenides |
Andrea Young is an American condensed matter physicist and materials scientist known for experimental investigations of two-dimensional materials, electron correlation, and superconductivity in atomically thin systems. Her work integrates low-temperature transport, nanoscale device fabrication, and scanning probe techniques to probe quantum phases in graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and moiré heterostructures. She holds faculty appointments and has collaborated with national laboratories, research consortia, and international groups on emergent phenomena at the interface of condensed matter physics and nanotechnology.
Young was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia and completed undergraduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she majored in physics. She pursued graduate research at Harvard University under the supervision of prominent condensed matter experimentalists, focusing on electron transport in low-dimensional systems. Her doctoral work connected experimental techniques developed at Bell Labs and knowledge emerging from groups at IBM Research and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Postdoctoral training included fellowships at Stanford University and collaborative projects with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University that broadened her expertise in device fabrication and cryogenic measurement.
Young began her independent career with an appointment at Columbia University where she established a laboratory for van der Waals heterostructures and two-dimensional materials. Her group fabricated devices using facilities at the National Institute of Standards and Technology-affiliated cleanrooms and leveraged characterization tools available at Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She later accepted a faculty position at University of California, Berkeley, where she collaborated with teams at Stanford University and Harvard University on moiré superlattices and correlated insulating states. Young has served on advisory committees for the American Physical Society, contributed to program planning at the Materials Research Society, and acted as a principal investigator on grants funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy.
Young's research centers on experimental studies of electronic phases in atomically thin crystals, including graphene, bilayer graphene, and transition metal dichalcogenides such as MoS2 and WS2. She made notable contributions to the characterization of superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene and to understanding correlation-driven insulators in moiré systems, building on concepts from studies at Princeton University and Yale University. Using techniques pioneered at University of Cambridge and ETH Zurich, her lab combined low-temperature transport measurements, magnetotransport, and capacitance spectroscopy to map phase diagrams as a function of carrier density, displacement field, and twist angle.
Her group developed fabrication protocols employing hexagonal boron nitride encapsulation and graphite gates, connecting to device architectures used by researchers at Columbia University and MIT. Young collaborated with theorists at Perimeter Institute and University of Chicago to interpret emergent phenomena such as nematicity, topological bands, and fractional Chern insulators in moiré heterostructures. She participated in cross-disciplinary efforts with investigators at Bell Labs and Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research to investigate spin–orbit coupling effects and proximity-induced superconductivity in heterostructures combining graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides.
Her experimental contributions also addressed quantum Hall ferromagnetism and symmetry-breaking orders observed in high-mobility graphene devices, aligning with parallel findings from groups at Columbia University, University of Manchester, and National University of Singapore. Young's measurements of tunable correlated states informed proposals for engineered platforms for quantum simulation and provided empirical benchmarks for numerical studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Young's recognitions include early-career awards from the National Science Foundation and distinguished investigator grants from the Department of Energy. She received fellowship appointments from institutions such as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and was named a Kavli Frontiers of Science fellow by the National Academy of Sciences. Her publications have been highlighted in venues associated with the American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society, and she has been invited to deliver plenary lectures at conferences organized by the International Conference on Quantum Materials and the Gordon Research Conferences.
Outside the laboratory, Young has been active in mentoring programs at Society of Women Engineers-affiliated initiatives and at the American Physical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Physics. She has advocated for diversity and inclusion in STEM through collaborations with the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program and partnerships with local chapters of Girls Who Code and National Society of Black Physicists. Young has participated in public outreach hosted by venues such as the American Museum of Natural History and has contributed to policy discussions at the intersection of scientific research and funding at meetings convened by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Category:American physicists Category:Condensed matter physicists Category:Women in science