Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov

Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov, FRS, HonFRSC, HonFInstP (born 23 August 1974) is a Russian-British physicist, and Langworthy Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. His work on graphene with Andre Geim, earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010

Konstantin Novoselov was born in Nizhny Tagil, Soviet Union, in 1974. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a MSc degree in 1997, and was awarded a PhD from the Radboud University of Nijmegen in 2004 for work supervised by Andre Geim.Novoselov has published more than 200 peer-reviewed research papers on several topics including mesoscopic superconductivity (Hall magnetometry),subatomic movements of magnetic domain walls,the discovery of gecko tape and graphene.

Kostya Novoselov participated in the Graphene Flagship project– a €1 billion initiative of the European Commission – and was featured in the official promotion movie of the project.

Novoselov is a director of the National Graphene Institute.]

Novoselov is also a recipient of a starting grant from the European Research Council.

Kostya Novoselov made it into a shortlist of scientists with multiple hot papers for the years 2007–2008 (shared second place with 13 hot papers)and 2009 (5th place with 12 hot papers).

In 2014 Kostya Novoselov was included in the list of the most highly cited researchers. He was also named among the 17 hottest researchers world-wide—"individuals who have published the greatest number of hot papers during 2012–2013"2007 Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize "to promote and recognise the novel work of young scientists working in the fields of Low Temperatures and/or High Magnetic Fields."

2008 Technology Review-35 Young Innovator 

2008 University of Manchester Researcher of the Year.

2008 Europhysics Prize, "for discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon (graphene) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties."

2008 International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Scientist Prize, "for his contribution in the discovery of graphene and for pioneering studies of its extraordinary properties."

2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Andre Geim, "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the material graphene."[9] Novoselov was the youngest Nobel laureate in physics since Brian Josephson in 1973, and in any field since Rigoberta Menchú (Peace) in 1992.

2010 Knight Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion

2010 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (HonFRSC)

2010 Honorary Professor of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

2011 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Manchester

2011 Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (HonFInstP)

2011 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)

2011 W. L. Bragg Lecture Prize from the International Union of Crystallography “… for his work on two-dimensional atomic crystals”

2012 Knight Bachelor in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to science.

2012 Chosen among “Britain's 50 New Radicals” by NESTA and The Observer

2012 The Kohn Prize Lecture “…for development of new class of materials: two-dimensional atomic crystals”

2013 Appointed Langworthy Professor of Physics, University of Manchester

2013 Leverhulme Medal (Royal Society) “…for revolutionary work on graphene, other two-dimensional crystals and their heterostructures that has great potential for a number of applications, from electronics to energy”

2013 Awarded Honorary Freedom of the City of Manchester "for his groundbreaking work on graphene", see List of Freedom of the City recipients

2013 Elected a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

2014 2nd place in the Discovery Section of the National Science Photography Competition.

In 2014 Kostya Novoselov was included in a list of the most highly cited researchers. He was also named among the 17 hottest researchers world-wide - "individuals who have published the greatest number of hot papers during 2012-2013".

In 2014 Kostya Novoselov was awarded the Onsager Medal.

His certificate of election to the Royal Society in 2011 reads

“ Kostya Novoselov's research interests cover a wide range of topics from mesoscopic superconductivity and ferromagnetism to materials science and biophysics. He studied vortex structures in mesoscopic superconductors, observed atomic-scale movements of ferromagnetic walls, monitored heartbeats of individual bacteria and mimicked gecko's adhesion mechanism. His breakthrough moment was the discovery of graphene. Novoselov is now widely recognised to be one of the pioneers in this field (as a number of international awards prove) and, together with Prof Geim FRS, leads research on various applications of this new material ranging from electronics, photonics, composite materials, chemistry, etc. Prof. Novoselov is strongly committed to disseminating science through public lectures and media interviews.