David Vanderbilt

David Vanderbilt is a professor of physics at Rutgers University researching condensed-matter physics since 1991, and named Board of Governors Professor of Physics in 2009.^[1] He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1976 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1981 studying under John D. Joannopoulos.^[2] He received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics in 2006.^[3] The Aneesur Rahman prize is the highest honor given by the American Physical Society for work in computational physics. In 2013 he was elected to the National Academy of Science.^[4]

David Vanderbilt
Born	20 August 1954 (1954-08-20) (age 70) Huntington, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Swarthmore College Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Rutgers University
Doctoral students	Shobhana Narasimhan, Nicola Marzari