Sam is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Lecturer in Quantum Engineering at the University of Glasgow, where he leads the Quantum Optospintronics Group. Sam’s research focuses on using spins in chemically synthesised molecules for quantum sensing and next-generation photonic devices, and spans solid-state physics, quantum engineering, physical chemistry, and materials science. Sam received a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2016), conducted postdoctoral work at the Freie Universität Berlin (2017), and the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago (2017-2021), and has been a visiting researcher to the Mescoscopic Physics Group, Paris-Sud University, and an Institute of Physics Fellow at the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. He joined the University of Glasgow in 2021.