Rate My Professor Andrei Bernevig

B. Andrei Bernevig is a Professor of Physics at Princeton University and visiting professor at Aalto University, associated with the Department of Applied Physics and collaborations in quantum dynamics and materials. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 2006 under the supervision of Shoucheng Zhang, having earlier obtained a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in mathematics from Stanford in 2001. Bernevig's research centers on quantum states of matter, topological phases of matter, twisted moiré systems, and high-temperature superconductivity. He co-directs the SuperC consortium pursuing room-temperature superconductivity alongside Professor Päivi Törmä at Aalto University, where he has hosted postdoctoral positions and contributed to projects on quantum geometry in quantum materials.

Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University's Center for Theoretical Physics, Bernevig joined the faculty as Assistant Professor in 2009, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014, and to Professor of Physics. He authored the book Topological Insulators and Superconductors (Princeton University Press, 2013). His seminal publications include "Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells" (Science, 2006), "Quantum Spin Hall Effect" (Physical Review Letters, 2006), "Type-II Weyl Semimetals" (Nature Physics, 2015), "Weyl Semimetal Phase in Noncentrosymmetric Transition-Metal Monophosphides" (Nature, 2015), "Topological Quantum Chemistry" (Nature, 2017), "Quantized Electric Multipole Insulators" (Science, 2017), and "Higher-Order Topological Insulators" (Nature, 2018). These works have shaped the understanding and classification of topological materials. Bernevig received the EPS EuroPhysics Prize from the European Physical Society in 2023 (shared with Claudia Felser), the APS James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials in 2019, the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, the New Horizons in Physics Prize in 2016, the Sackler Prize in 2014, and the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2018. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022. Bernevig delivered the Aalto Physics Colloquium on Topological Quantum Chemistry in 2019 and served as a PhD opponent at Aalto in 2020.