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Sam Stranks is Professor of Energy Materials & Optoelectronics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Â黨ӰԺ. He completed a BSc (Honours) and BA at the University of Adelaide in 2007. He then completed his PhD as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, receiving the 2012 Institute of Physics Roy Thesis Prize. From 2012-2014, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford University, before holding a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014-2016). Sam established his  in Cambridge in 2017, with a focus 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, lighting and radiation detection. He 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, the 2025 Nevill Mott Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics and a 2026 Humboldt Research Award. He is a TED Fellow and co-founder of , a startup developing lightweight perovskite PV panels, , a startup developing ultra-sensitive radiation detectors for medical imaging, and , a not-for-profit developing education for school-age children around climate change solutions.