Andre Geim

Sir Andre Geim
Geim in 2018
Born
  • Andrei Konstantinovich Geim
  • Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм

(1958-10-21) 21 October 1958
NationalityDutch and British
Alma materMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Known for
SpouseIrina Grigorieva
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed matter physics
Institutions
Thesis Investigation of mechanisms of transport relaxation in metals by a helicon resonance method  (1987)
Doctoral advisorVictor Petrashov
Doctoral students
  • Soren Neubeck
  • Konstantin Novoselov
  • Rashid Jalil
    Da Jiang
  • Rahul Raveendran-Nair
    Ibtsam Riaz
  • Gareth Young
Websitecondmat.physics.manchester.ac.uk/people/academic/geim/

Sir Andre Konstantin Geim (Russian: Андре́й Константи́нович Гейм; born 21 October 1958; IPA1 pronunciation: ɑːndreɪ gaɪm) 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 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Konstantin Novoselov for his work on graphene. He is Regius Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Professor at the National Graphene Institute. Geim was previously awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for levitating a frog using its intrinsic magnetism. He is the first and only individual, as of 2025, to have received both Nobel and Ig Nobel prizes, for which he holds a Guinness World Record.