Andrea Young

Young received his bachelor's degree in 2006 and his doctoral degree in 2012 from Columbia University, where he studied the properties of graphene.^[2] From 2011 to 2014, he was a Pappalardo Fellow in experimental condensed matter physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).^[3] Following his postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, he was a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science.^[2] Young joined the faculty at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2015.

In 2016, Young was awarded the William McMillan Prize from the University of Illinois Department of Physics^[4] and the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering.^[5] He was additionally a recipient of an AFOSR Young Investigator grant (2016)^[6] Young was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2017.^[7] He received the 2018 New Horizons in Physics Prize.^[1]