After graduation in 1994, he joined the Institute for Theoretical Physics (currently,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics) at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. There he studied the electronic properties of nanomaterials and
nanostructures under Matthew Fisher. In 1995, he moved to the
University of California, Riverside as an assistant professor. In 2000, he moved to
Boston University as a professor of physics. Castro Neto published on theoretical aspects of graphene such as the effect of vacancies in the electronic properties; the electronic properties of bilayer graphene; superconductivity;
twistronics; Coulomb blockade in graphene mesoscopic structures; atomic collapse at charge impurities; localized magnetic states; gap opening in biased bilayers; strain engineering; and impurity induced spin-orbit effect. In 2016, Thomson Reuters recognized Castro Neto as among the top 1% of researchers in physics. He was also recognized by
Clarivate Analytics from 2017 to 2019. His work has been cited more than 101,602 times, and he has an
h-index of 122. In 2008, he moved to the National University of Singapore, starting the Graphene Research Centre (GRC) in 2010 with facilities for the synthesis, characterization, and device fabrication of graphene devices. In 2014, the GRC was expanded by a grant of the National Research Foundation of Singapore to explore other 2D materials beyond graphene and their heterostructures with the creation of the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials. Castro Neto has initiated and later closed 3 science spinoffs out of the
National University in Singapore: 2D Materials in 2015; MADE Advanced Materials in 2017 and Graphene Watts in 2019. == References ==