Andre Geim

Sir Andre Konstantin Geim is a Russian-born Dutch-British physicist working in England in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. Geim was awarded the 2010... Wikipedia

• Born:  Andrei Konstantinovich Geim, October 21, 1958, Sochi, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
• Age:  66 years
• Citizenship:  Netherlands (1990s–2025), United Kingdom (from 2012)
• Fields:  Condensed matter physics
• Institutions:  Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institute of Solid State Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, University of Manchester, Radboud University Nijmegen
• Alma mater:  Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
• Thesis:  Investigation of mechanisms of transport relaxation in metals by a helicon resonance method (1987)
• Doctoral students:  Soren Neubeck, Konstantin Novoselov, Rashid Jalil, Da Jiang, Rahul Raveendran-Nair, Ibtsam Riaz, Gareth Young
• Known for:  Discovering graphene, diamagnetic levitation, Gecko tape
• Notable awards:  Ig Nobel Prize (2000), Mott Medal (2007), EuroPhysics Prize (2008), Körber Prize (2009), John J. Carty Award (2010), Hughes Medal (2010), Nobel Prize in Physics (2010), Knight Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (2010), Knight Bachelor (2012), Copley Medal (2013), Carbon Medal (2016), Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (2018)
• Spouse:  Irina Grigorieva
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo