Professor Sam Stranks


University of Cambridge, UK
Sam Stranks is Professor of Optoelectronics in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics. Sam's research focuses on the development of emerging semiconductors for low-cost electronics applications such as photovoltaics, lighting, and detectors. He is known for his pioneering and ongoing contributions to the development of halide perovskite photovoltaic technologies, and the development of multimodal microscopy techniques to understand semiconductor behaviour on different length scales.

Sam received 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 and the 2024 Blavatnik Finalist Award in Chemical Sciences. Sam is also 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.


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