Urs Schreiber has written a lot on gerbes and their applications to physics: https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Urs+Schreiber See, for instance, the expository works “Differential cohomology in a cohesive ∞-topos” and “Higher prequantum geometry”. Most of his published papers (https://arxiv.org/find/math/1/au:+Schreiber_U/0/1/0/all/0/1) use gerbes in some way. Almost all of [Konrad Waldorf's papers](http://math.konradwaldorf.de/www/?show=papers&lg=en) also involve gerbes in some way, and some of them may be more accessible to a beginner, see, e.g., his survey with Christoph Schweigert [Gerbes and Lie Groups](https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.5467).