Arun Bansil

University Distinguished Professor

Physics

ar.bansil@northeastern.edu

617.373.2923

Mailing Address:

111 DA (Dana Research Center), Boston, MA 02115

Office Address:

214 DA (Dana Research Center), Boston, MA 02115

Expertise:

2d and Layered Materials, Angel-resolve, Compton Scattering, Computational Physics, First-principles Electronic Structure Calculations, Inelastic X-ray Scattering, Other Highly Resolved Spectroscopies, Photoemission, Positron Annihilation, Scanning-tunneling, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, topological materials

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Bansil is a University Distinguished Professor in physics at Northeastern University (NU). He served for over two years at the US Department of Energy managing the flagship Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics program (2008-10). He is an academic editor of the international Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (1994-), the founding director of NU’s Advanced Scientific Computation Center (1999-), and serves on various international editorial boards and commissions. He has authored/co-authored over 398 technical articles and 18 volumes of conference proceedings covering a wide range of topics in theoretical condensed matter and materials physics, and a major book on X-Ray Compton Scattering (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004). Bansil is a Highly Cited Researcher (ISI Web of Science/Clarivate Analytics; 2017, 2018).

Arun Bansil in the news

Arun Bansil, University Distinguished Professor of physics and Robert Markiewicz, professor of physics are part of a team of researchers who are describing the mechanism by which copper-oxide materials turn from insulators to superconductors. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Physics

Superconductor or Not? They’re Exploring the Identity Crisis of This Weird Quantum Material.

Northeastern researchers are probing a class of copper-based materials that can be turned into superconductors. Their findings offer tantalizing clues for a decades-old mystery, and a step forward for quantum computing.

Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Physics

Six Northeastern Professors Named to List of ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ Around the Globe

Six Northeastern University professors have been featured in the "The 2018 Highly Cited Researchers" list, which ranks researchers around the world who have produced papers that come in at the top 1 percent by citations in their fields between 2006 and 2016.

Arun Bansil, University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics, poses for a portrait at Northeastern University on July 24, 2017. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Physics

Quantum information systems will revolutionize computing… as soon as we figure out how to make them

Professor Arun Bansil's new grant from the Department of Energy to investigate new ways to design quantum information systems.

Hasnain Hafiz receives the 2018 College of Science Graduate Student Excellence Award in Research.

Physics

Physicist takes on battery challenges

Hasnain Hafiz was recently recognized by the College of Science for his exemplary work in research in functional energy materials.

Arun Bansil. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Physics

What if superconductors could work at room temperature?

In a paper published recently in Communications Physics, a Nature publication, Bansil and his colleagues describe a discovery that brings us closer to that elusive feat—what he described as the “holy grail” of the field. For the first time, researchers were able to model the behavior of electrons, which are responsible for superconductors’ ability to conduct electricity.

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Arun Bansil

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Arun Bansil in the news

Superconductor or Not? They’re Exploring the Identity Crisis of This Weird Quantum Material.

Six Northeastern Professors Named to List of ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ Around the Globe

Quantum information systems will revolutionize computing… as soon as we figure out how to make them

Physicist takes on battery challenges

What if superconductors could work at room temperature?