Professor Sir Andre Geim

Sir Andre Geim is Regius Professor and Royal Society Research Professor at The University of Manchester. He has received many international awards and distinctions, including the John Carty Prize from the US National Academy of Sciences and the Copley Medal from the Royal Society. Most notably, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for his ground-breaking work on graphene.

Andre Geim, born in Russia in 1958 to German parents and holds dual British and Dutch citizenship. He began his academic career in Moscow, followed by postdoctoral research at the universities of Nottingham, Bath, and Copenhagen. He then secured a tenured professorship in the Netherlands before joining The University of Manchester in 2001.

Sir Andre's research has significantly impacted the scientific community. Of the many papers he has authored, nearly 50 have been cited over 1,000 times, and 10 have been cited over 10,000 times. Notably, two of these rank among the 100 most cited research papers in history, as reported by Nature. Thomson Reuters has consistently recognised him as one of the world's most active scientists, crediting him with pioneering research in diamagnetic levitation, gecko tape, and graphene.

Uniquely, Sir Andre is the only individual awarded both a Nobel Prize and an Ig Nobel Prize - the latter in 2000 for levitating frogs. He has been knighted in both the Netherlands and the UK and is a member of the national science academies of China, the USA, and the UK, among others.