Samuel is ICREA Research Professor, Group Leader and Deputy Director at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Spain. Samuel has had an international career in different research centers between Japan and Germany.
Samuel received several awards (among others): The MIT TR35 Top Innovator Under 35 2014, the Princess of Girona Scientific Award 2015 and the National Research Award for Young Talent 2016, the “Scientific Excellence award 2022” from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, the Banco Sabadell Foundation award for “Basic Science and Engineering award” 2022, and the “Constantes y Vitales Award” to the “Young Talent in Biomedicine”.
He is elected member of the Young Academy of Spain since 2020.His group’s main interests are new types of advanced robotics from nano- to mesoscale, including self-propelled nanoparticles as intelligent vehicles in biomedicine to the 3D Bioengineering of biohybrid robots and actuators. He is also cofounder, CSO and CEO-interim- of the spin off Nanobots therapeutics SL.
