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Professor Sir Kostya Novoselov, FRS
Professor Sir Konstantin ‘Kostya’ Novoselov FRS was born in Russia in August 1974.
He has both British and Russian citizenship.
Konstantin Novoselov is a Russian-British physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his experiments with graphene.
He is best known for isolating graphene at The University of Manchester in 2004, and is an expert in condensed matter physics, mesoscopic physics and nanotechnology. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 for his achievements with graphene.
Kostya is Langworthy Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at The University of Manchester.
He graduated from The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and undertook his PhD studies at The University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands before moving to The University of Manchester in 2001.
Professor Novoselov has published more than 250 peer-reviewed research papers.