Dr. Vanderbilt is an expert in the development of methods for electronic structure calculations and the application of such methods for computational materials theory. His current research interests include the development of methods for treating insulators in finite electric fields, advancing the theory and applicability of Wannier functions, and applying Berry-phase methods to study magnetic systems. One class of applications focuses on the dielectric and piezoelectric properties of novel oxide materials, especially structural phase transitions, lattice contributions to dielectric and piezoelectric activity, and properties of interfaces and superlattices. Another research thrust is concerned with anomalous Hall conductivity, orbital magnetization, magnetoelectric couplings, and topological insulators. Dr. Vanderbilt has published over 365 articles in scientific journals and has a Web of Science h-index of 107. He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1995, is a winner of the 2006 Rahman Prize in Computational Physics awarded by the APS, and served as Chair of the Division of Materials Physics of the APS in 2006. He was awarded a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics in 2014. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013, and to the National Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.