| David Vanderbilt | |
| Birth Place: | Huntington, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Physics |
| Workplaces: | Rutgers University |
| Alma Mater: | Swarthmore College Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral Students: | Shobhana Narasimhan, Nicola Marzari |
David Vanderbilt is a professor of physics at Rutgers University researching condensed-matter physics since 1991, and named Board of Governors Professor of Physics in 2009.[1] He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1976 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1981 studying under John D. Joannopoulos.[2] He received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics in 2006.[3] The Aneesur Rahman prize is the highest honor given by the American Physical Society for work in computational physics. In 2013 he was elected to the National Academy of Science.[4]