Andre Heim

Sir Andre Konstantinovich Heim, FRS (Russian: Андрей Константинович Гейм, English: Sir Andre Konstantin Geim, born October 21, 1958), is a Russian-born British physicist, director of the Manchester Research Center for Mesoscopic Science and Nanotechnology, Regius Professor at the University of Manchester, UK, research professor at the Royal Society, director of the "Shenzhen Geim Graphene Research Center" at Tsinghua University-Berkeley Shenzhen College, foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, academician of the Royal Society, foreign academician of the US National Academy of Sciences, and winner of the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in Physics. He won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Konstantin Novoselov for "pioneering experiments on two-dimensional graphene materials" and received the Copley Medal in 2013. On February 25, 2026, the University of Hong Kong issued a press release announcing that Sir Andre Geim, the Nobel Prize winner in physics and a top scientist famous internationally for the discovery of graphene, will officially join the Faculty of Science of the University of Hong Kong in April 2026.