Andreas Rost is a Lecturer and EPSRC Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Over the last years his work has focused on low temperature phase diagrams of strongly correlated quantum materials, topological Weyl- and Dirac semimetals as well as the exploration of new material systems. For this purpose his group has developed a new suite of low temperature thermodynamic probes for microscopic single crystals in addition to employing more conventional methods.

Before taking up his current position he worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research & University of Stuttgart as well as RIKEN & The University of Tokyo on the physics of new classes of topological semi-metals as well as the development of new scanning tunnelling microscopy setups. The latter interest developed out of work on unconventional high temperature superconductors using spectroscopic imaging scanning tunnelling microscopy at Cornell University. He obtained his PhD from the University of St Andrews for the entropy landscape of phase formation in the vicinity of a quantum phase transition.