Biography
Andre K. Geim was born in Russia in 1958. He received his PhD from the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1987. He is currently a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Manchester, UK. In 2004, Geim and his student Konstantin Novoselov pioneered the isolation of graphene—a single-atom-thick layer of carbon—from graphite using a simple adhesive tape method, and systematically studied its electrical and optical properties. They discovered novel physical phenomena in graphene, including charge carriers behaving as two-dimensional Dirac fermions and the half-integer quantum Hall effect, thereby opening up a new field of research on two-dimensional materials. For this landmark discovery, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. Professor Geim is also known for his "levitating frog" experiment, for which he received an Ig Nobel Prize. He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has received knighthoods from both the UK and the Netherlands. To date, he has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, including multiple papers in Nature and Science.
