Sir Konstantin ‘Kostya’ Novoselov FRS is a director of the Institute of Functional Intelligent Materials and is a Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. He is also a part-time Langworthy Professor of Physics and the Royal Society Research Professor at The University of Manchester. After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Novoselov earned his PhD degree at the University of Nijmegen before transitioning to The University of Manchester in 2001. He would later join the National University of Singapore in 2019.
Novoselov is best-known for isolating graphene at The University of Manchester, earning the Nobel Prize for Physics for his achievements with the nanostructure in 2010. He is also an expert in condensed matter physics, mesoscopic physics and nanotechnology.
One of the most highly cited researchers in the world, Novoselov has published more than 400 peer-reviewed research papers. He has been awarded numerous prizes, including Nicholas Kurti Prize (2007), International Union of Pure and Applied Science Prize (2008), MIT Technology Review young innovator (2008), Europhysics Prize (2008), Bragg Lecture Prize from the Union of Crystallography (2011), the Kohn Award Lecture (2012), Leverhulme Medal from the Royal Society (2013), Onsager medal (2014), Carbon medal (2016), Dalton medal (2016), Otto Warburg Prize (2019), John von Neumann Professor from the John von Neumann Computer Society (2022) among many others. He was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours.