Andrea Young is a professor of physics at UC Santa Barbara. His career has focused on the development of van der Waals heterostructures—metamaterials consisting of interleaved atomically thin two dimensional crystals—and the exploration of phases that emerge from the entanglement of strongly interacting electrons. Young received a BA in physics and mathematics from Columbia University in 2006 year and a PhD in physics from Columbia in 2012 respectively. He was subsequently a Pappalardo Fellow at MIT and visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute before starting his group at UC Santa Barbara in 2015. Young was a finalist for the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists and received a New Horizons prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, a Young Scientist Prize from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the U.S Department of Defense, and has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a Packard Fellowship.
