The Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP; Russian: Институт физики твердого тела) of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a research institution, located in the small town of Chernogolovka near Moscow in Russia.
Its main fields of research are condensed matter physics and materials science.
The main organizers of the institute were Georgii Kurdyumov, Yuri Osipyan, and Cheslav Kopetsky.
[6] The institute also organizes conferences and seminars on various areas of condensed matter physics.
Andre Geim obtained his PhD from the institute in 1987, he would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene".