Nobel Prize in Physics;
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA;
Founder and Director of the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM).

A number of challenges of the modern world could potentially be resolved on the low level with innovative materials. However, new types of materials need to be designed for such applications, with some characteristics of biological systems: those with self-healing capabilities, with memory functions, those which can evolve differently depending on external conditions. I will be discussing the methodologies to design such artificial living systems and the areas of their applications. As AI is playing a crucial role in the process – I will discuss a variety of AI approaches for the materials design. Also, a very important stream is the materials for AI: I will consider the utilisation of new materials for novel, beyond von Neumann computational solutions, which allows significant reduction on the power consumption of modern data centres.

• 17:30 Check-in

• 18:00 Seminar begins

  Welcome Remarks

  Valeria Morra – Associate Managing Director CSP-IAS

  Fabio Pammolli – President, The Italian Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI4I)

  Alberto Anfossi – Secretary General, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

   

  AI for Materials Design
  Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov

   

• 19:30 Q&A Session
• 20:00 End of the event

Prof Sir Konstantin ‘Kostya’ Novoselov FRS was born in Russia in August 1974. He is best known for isolating graphene at The University of Manchester in 2004, and is an expert in condensed matter physics, mesoscopic physics and nanotechnology. Every year since 2014 Kostya Novoselov is included in the list of the most highly cited researchers in the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 for his achievements with graphene. His other notable achievements include his work on other 2D materials, their heterostructures, and lately on functional intelligent materials and the application of AI for materials design.

Kostya is a director of the Institute of Functional Intelligent Materials and holds a position of a Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. He is also part time Langworthy Professor of Physics and the Royal Society Research Professor at The University of Manchester.

He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and undertook his PhD studies at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands before moving to The University of Manchester in 2001. Later Professor Novoselov joint the National University of Singapore in 2019. Professor Novoselov has published more than 500 peer-reviewed research papers, including more than 30 in Nature or Science. His h-index is above 155. The paper on the discovery of graphene has more than 60,000 citations, and was included by Nature to the list of 100 most cited papers of all times. He was awarded with 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), Platinum medal from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (2024) among many others. He was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours.

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