Curriculum Vitae of David Vanderbilt
David Vanderbilt received his BA in Physics from Swarthmore College
in 1976 and his PhD in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1981. He spent three years as a Miller Postdoctoral
Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley before joining
the faculty of the Physics Department at Harvard University in
1984, first as an Assistant and then as an Associate Professor. He
has been a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at
Rutgers University since 1991, and was named Board of
Governors Professor of Physics in 2009. Dr. Vanderbilt is an expert in the
development of methods for electronic structure calculations and
the application of such methods for computational materials theory.
His current research interests include the development of methods
for treating insulators in finite electric fields, advancing the
theory and applicability of Wannier functions, and applying
Berry-phase methods to study magnetic systems. One class of applications
focuses on the dielectric and piezoelectric properties
of novel oxide materials, especially structural phase transitions,
lattice contributions to dielectric and piezoelectric activity, and
properties of interfaces and superlattices. Another research thrust
is concerned with anomalous Hall conductivity, orbital magnetization,
magnetoelectric couplings, and topological insulators.
Dr. Vanderbilt has published over 230 articles in scientific journals
and has a Web of Science h-index of 64.
He is a
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), is a winner of the
2006 Rahman Prize in Computational Physics awarded by the APS, and
served as Chair of the Division of Materials Physics of the APS in
2006.
Please send any comments on this page to
dhv@physics.rutgers.edu.
Revised March 2011