Sam Stranks

Sam is an avid traveler, sports fanatic and father of two, he is passionate about new technologies and solving energy and climate change issues. Sam is a TED Fellow, Royal Society Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at the University of Cambridge (UK) leading a group focusing on transformative electronics applications. He holds a BA and BSc from the University of Adelaide (Australia) and PhD from the University of Oxford (UK), which he completed as a Rhodes Scholar. From 2014-2016, he was a post-doctoral researcher in Henry Snaith’s group at Oxford where he was also a Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College, before spending 2 years as a Marie Curie Fellow at MIT. For his seminal contributions to the field of hybrid perovskites, Sam received the 2016 IUPAP Young Scientist in Semiconductor Physics Prize, the 2017 Early Career Prize by the European Physical Society and the 2018 Henry Moseley Prize and Medal from the Institute of Physics. In 2017, he was named by the MIT Technology Review as one of the 35 under 35 innovators in Europe and was recently listed by Clarivate Analytics as the seventh most influential researchers in the world through highly cited papers.