Andrew Millis was educated at Harvard, Cambridge University  and MIT. He currently serves as Professor of Physics at Columbia University and is the co-Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Simons foundation’s Flatiron Institute, where he is also Managing Director.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the 2017 Hamburg Prize in Theoretical Physics. 

Millis has made crucial scientific contributions to a broad range of topics in correlated electron physics. Highlights include the basic theory of heavy fermion/Kondo lattice systems and of equilibrium and nonequilibrium quantum criticality in metals, foundational work on the optical and magnetic properties of high transition temperature superconductors and on the transport properties of molecular junctions and the basic physics of colossal magnetoresistance in manganese oxide materials. He discovered a new type of metal-insulator transition and demonstrated its relevance to the rare earth nickel oxide materials and established the role of lattice degrees of freedom in correlation-induced metal-insulator transitions His pioneering work on Mott-insulator/band-insulator heterostructures helped establish the theoretical basis for this area of research.  Millis’ development of the `hybridization expansion’ with Werner and Troyer enabled the quantitative study of realistic models of correlated materials and pioneered the extension of these methods to the nonequilibrium case.  His current research interests include the nonequilibrium physics of driven systems, mechanisms of superconductivity, machine learning methods of compressing quantum many-body physics, and excitonic, superconducting and metal-insulator phase transitions in moiré  materials. Working first with David Eisenbud and then with Yuri Tschinkel in the Mathematics and Physical Sciences Division of the Simons Foundation, Millis helped devise, launch and administer programs for large-scale philanthropic support of mathematics, theoretical computer science and theoretical physics, initiated programs to foster the development of theory in the life sciences, and helped develop the Flatiron Institute. 

Millis is an unfunded member of the collaboration, currently working on the theory of superconductivity in the presence of combined strong electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions, on superconductivity in moiré materials.