Andrei began her independent career in 1987 as an assistant professor at Rutgers. One of her first major contributions was establishing the existence of a Wigner solid in a 2D electron plasma. More recently she has made major contributions to the study of
graphene, including the detection of ballistic transport of charge carriers and the observation of
Van Hove singularity in twisted bilayer graphene. Andrei's discovery of the
fractional quantum Hall effect in graphene was one of
Science magazine's top ten discoveries for the year 2009. Through studying
moiré patterns in twisted sheets of graphene, Andrei observed the alignment of electrons which could facilitate the use of graphene in supercomputers. Andrei's research has also presented the possibility that graphene could be used to cool supercomputers. It has revealed new ways of making flat bands within twisted graphene which may be used to make
superlattice structures. Eva Andrei received the Society of Physics Students Outstanding Teaching Award in 2014. As of January 2024, Andrei still facilitates research through Rutgers and as a postdoctoral fellow at
Bell Labs. This includes experimental research on the systems of reduced dimensionality at high magnetic fields and low temperatures. This research has led to many discoveries in the field of
superconductivity, charge density waves, and
magnetism. == Selected publications ==