Konstantin Novoselov

University of Manchester

Konstantin Novoselov is a Russian-British physicist and Langworthy Professor at the University of Manchester. He shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics with Andre Geim for the experimental discovery and characterization of graphene and its remarkable physical properties. As a postdoctoral researcher working with Geim, Novoselov was a key figure in the 2004 experiments that isolated graphene using mechanical exfoliation, and he performed much of the detailed electrical characterization that established graphene's extraordinary electronic properties, including its anomalous quantum Hall effect and extremely high electron mobility. Novoselov has since been central to the broader field of 2D materials beyond graphene, investigating transition metal dichalcogenides (like MoS2 and WS2), hexagonal boron nitride, and van der Waals heterostructures—artificially stacked layers of different 2D materials with engineered electronic properties. These heterostructures open possibilities for atomically thin electronics, tunneling transistors, and designer quantum materials. He is a founding member of the Graphene Flagship, the largest research initiative in European history, coordinating graphene commercialization across the EU. He has also been a Singapore Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, building bridges between Manchester and Asian research ecosystems. Novoselov has received the Europhysics Prize, the Nicholas Kurti European Science Prize, and election to the Royal Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.