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Sir Konstantin Sergeevich "Kostya" Novoselov, FRS, HonFRSC, FInstP (Russian: Константи́н Серге́евич Новосёлов; born 23 August 1974) is a Russo-British physicist, known for his works on graphene together with Andre Geim, which earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. Novoselov is currently Professor of Physics in the mesoscopic physics research group at the University of Manchester and a Royal Society University Research Fellow. Novoselov is also a recipient of a starting grant from the European Research Council.


Education

Konstantin Novoselov was born in Nizhny Tagil, Soviet Union, in 1974 in a Russian family. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a MSc degree in 1997, and was awarded a PhD degree from the Radboud University of Nijmegen in 2004 for work supervised by Andre Geim.


Career

Together with Geim, Novoselov has published more than 90 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 National Graphene Institute.