Personal Information

Mikhail Katsnelson

Born 10 August 1957, Magnitogorsk, USSR
Married, 2 children

Education, degrees and awards

  • High school examination in Magnitogorsk, advanced physical-mathematical school #53, 1972
  • Master of science examination in Theoretical Physics at Department of Physics, Ural State University, Sverdlovsk, 1977, excellent grade (Oscillations of inhomogeneous electron plasma in WKB approximation). Awarded the Distinguished M. Sc. Diploma
  • PhD in Solid State Physics at  Institute of Metal Physics (Sverdlovsk), 1980, supervisor Prof. Sergey V. Vonsovsky (Instabilities of electron energy spectrum and elementary excitations in s-d exchange and polar models of a crystal)
  • DSc in Solid State Physics, 1985, Institute of Metal Physics (Strong electron correlations in transition metals, their alloys and compounds)
  • Professorship in Solid State Physics and in Mathematical Physics in Ural State University, 1992; in Theoretical Physics in Radbound University of Nijmegen 2004
  • Lenin Komsomol Prize (State Prize for young scientists of the USSR), 1988, for Quantitative theory of electronic, magnetic and optical properties of transition metals, their alloys and compounds
  • Radboud Science Award, 2010
  • Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, 2011
  • Honorary Doctor of Uppsala University, 2012
  • Spinoza Prize (highest scientific award in the Netherlands), 2013
  • Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics, 2016
  • Advanced Grant of European Research Council, 2013
  • Synergy Grant of European Research Council, 2019
  • Gravitation Grant (excellence grant for scientific consortia in the Netherlands), 2022
  • Elected member of Academia Europaea, 2013
  • Elected member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014
  • Elected member of Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala, 2015
  • Outstanding Referee for the journals of the American Physical Society, 2012
  • Distinguished Referee for the Europhysics Letters, 2013
  • Reviewer of the Year for the npj Quantum Materials, 2022
  • Plenary speaker at International Congress on Mathematical Physics, 2015
  • WISE guest professor at Uppsala University, 2023

Working experience

  • Employment: 1977-2003: young researcher, researcher, senior researcher, leading researcher, chief researcher, head of the Quantum Theory of Metals Group in Institute of Metal Physics, Ekaterinburg (former Sverdlovsk), Russia; 1992 – 2001: professor of Ural State University, Ekaterinburg; 2002-2004: visiting professor, Theoretical Magnetism Group, Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Present position: professor, head of the group of Theory of Condensed Matter, Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Visiting positions (for one-three months): Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (1990, 1996); Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (1996, 1998); Imperial College, London (1991); Ames National Laboratory, Ames, Iowa (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001); University of Nijmegen (2000, 2001); Uppsala University (2000); University of Hamburg (2011).

Professional service

  • Referee: Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, PNAS, Reviews of Modern Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A,B,X, Nuclear Physics B, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Europhysics Letters, Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, Acta Materialia, Nanoscale, Journal of American Chemical Society, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Solid State Communications, Dalton, Langmuir, Journal of Chemical Physics, New Journal of Physics, Nanotechnology, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Journal of Physics A, European Physical Journal B, Chemical Physics Letters, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Physics Letters A, Physica Status Solidi, Physica Scripta, JETP Letters, JETP and other journals
  • Scientific Secretary of Joint Research Council for Physical and Technical Sciences, Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, 1992-1999
  • Member of Program Board of Lorentz Center (Leiden), 2007-2012
  • Member of Scientific Advisory Board of Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, Singapore, from 2024
  • Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters, 2014-2020
  • Member of Advisory Editorial Board of Advanced Materials Interfaces, from 2013
  • Member of Executive Editorial Board of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, from 2012
  • Member of Advisory Editorial Board of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2009-2011
  • Member of Advisory Editorial Board of Entropy, from 2020
  • Editor of Annals of Physics, from 2024
  • Organizer of the workshop Computational Approaches to Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems (COMPEC), Dresden, May 1998
  • Member of the Program Committee of the European and Asian Symposium Trends in Magnetism (EASTMAG),  Ekaterinburg, February 2001
  • Chairman of the Program Committee of the Conference on the Electronic Structure and Magnetism of Strongly Correlated Systems, Miass (Russia), March 2001
  • Organizer of the Focus Week Computational Approaches to Nonlinear Phenomena in Solids, Dresden, September 2001
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Conference on the Electronic Structure and Computational Magnetism, Washington DC, July 2002
  • Organizer of the workshop Dynamics in Magnetic Materials, Uppsala, November 2003
  • Organizer of the Landelijk Seminarium Gecondenseerde Materie, Nijmegen, November 2004
  • Organizer of the workshop Electronic structure of correlated materials, Hamburg, May 2005
  • Chairman of the Program Committee of KNAW Conference Multiscale Modelling: Electrons, Molecules and (Bio) Materials, Amsterdam, April 2006
  • Organizer of the workshop Graphene, Leiden, February 2007
  • Organizer of the workshop Graphene, Benasque, July 2009
  • Organizer of the workshop New Computational Methods in Quantum Many-Body Theory, Leiden, August 2009
  • Co-Chairman of the workshop Computational Approaches to Iron and Iron-Based Alloys, Ekaterinburg, October 2009
  • Organizer of the CECAM workshop Computational Physics and Chemistry of Graphene, Lausanne, October 2009
  • Co-Chairman of the Program Committee of Graphene Week 2012, Delft, June 2012
  • Organizer of the CECAM workshop Graphene: From Band Structure to Many-Body Physics, Bremen, September 2012
  • Organizer of the CECAM workshop Novel 2D Materials: Tuning Electronic Properties on the Atomic Scale, Bremen, June 2013
  • Organizer of the CECAM workshop Graphene’s Strain Engineering, Zurich, July 2014
  • Guest Editor of the special issue Two-dimensional Materials: Electronic Structure and Many-Body Effects, Ann. Phys. (Berlin), October 2014
  • Organizer of the workshop Novel Quantum Materials and Systems, Leiden, September 2015
  • Co-Chairman of the conference AMM-2016, Ab-initio Modeling of Advanced Materials, Ekaterinburg, September 2016
  • Co-Chairman of the conference AMM-2019, Ab-initio Modeling of Advanced Materials, Ekaterinburg, September 2019
  • Organizer of the conference Evolution of Complexity from the Statistical Physics Perspective, Yerevan, June-July 2022