Primary Job Title Associate Director for Physics Primary Organization Simons Foundation
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Andrew Millis is associate director for Physics at the Simons Foundation. Millis is also a professor in the physics department at Columbia University, where he has been on the faculty since 2001 and served as department chair from 2006-2009.
He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. Prior to joining the
Columbia faculty, he worked for ten years in the Theoretical Physics Research group at Bell Laboratories and served on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University and Rutgers University.
Millis’ research interests are in the area of theoretical physics, with a particular focus on the properties of interacting electrons in solids and nanostructures.His recent work has emphasized the development and use of new numerical methods for the many-electron problem and the application of these methods to elucidate the behavior of high temperature superconductors, oxide superlattices, and materials under non-equilibrium conditions.
He is the author of more than 250 papers and has served on numerous advisory boards, including that of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is currently a trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics, a foreign associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Two of his recent postdoctoral fellows have received IUPAP Young Scientist awards.
