Sam Stranks, PhD profile page

Sam Stranks is Professor of Energy Materials & Optoelectronics at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and an elected Fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics. Sam's research focuses on the optical and electronic properties of emerging semiconductors including halide perovskites, carbon allotropes and organic semiconductors for low-cost electronics applications such as photovoltaics and lighting. He graduated from the University of Adelaide in 2007 with a BA (German and Applied Mathematics) and BSc Hons (Physics and Physical Chemistry). He later completed his PhD as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. Sam established his research group in Cambridge in 2017. Sam has received a number of awards for his work including the 2018 Henry Moseley Award and Medal from the Institute of Physics, the 2019 Marlow Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the 2021 IEEE Stuart Wenham Award, the 2021 Leverhulme Prize in Physics, the 2021 EES Lectureship, the 2022 Lem Prize and the 2024 Blavatnik Finalise Award. Sam is a co-founder of Swift Solar, a startup developing high-performance perovskite PV panels, and Sustain/Ed, a not-for-profit developing education for school-age children around climate change solutions.