Funding

In order of year granted

2025:

• ERC Consolidator Grant, Multi-modal platforms to drive vapour deposition of modular hybrid perovskite devices (VAPOURISE), PI: Sam Stranks, €3M 2025-2030
• MRC Early-Stage Healthcare Interventions, Grant No. APP47651, Scalable and reproducible multi-pixel perovskite photon counting detectors, £300k, 2025-2026

2024:

• Newton International Fellowship, Fellow: Dr Wenxin Mao, Grant No. NIF\R1\231028: Towards Next-Generation Printable Luminescent Solar Concentrators, £0.42M, 2024—2027
• EPSRC Impact Award Accelerator Early-Stage Commercialisation Fund, Commercialising Low-Dose X-Ray Detectors (COMX), £0.1M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2024—2025
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (awarded by EU, funded by UKRI), Fellow: Dr Robert Westbrook, Grant No. EP/Z001897/1: MoDCons: Multi-Modal Microscopy of Doped Semiconductors, €0.2M, 2024—2026
• EPSRC Princeton-Oxford-Cambridge Centre-to-Centre Collaboration on Soft Functional Energy Materials, Grant No. EP/Z531303/1, £1.5M total PI: Hennning Sirringhaus (UCam), Cols: Sam Stranks (UCam), Neil Greenham (UCam), Bartemu Montserrat (UCam), Akshay Rao (UCam), Sian Dutton (UCam), Hugo Bronstein (UCam), Clare Grey (UCam), Ian McCulloch (Oxford), Andrew Goodwin (Oxford), Barry Rand (Princeton), 2024—2027
• Leverhulme ECR Fellowship, Fellow: Dr Linfeng Pan, Grant No. ECF-2024-067, Multi-model Spectroscopic Imaging on Photocathodes for Solar Fuels Production, £175k, 2024-2027

2023:

• Marie Curie Global Fellowship (awarded by EU, funded by UKRI), Fellow: Dr Linjie Dai, Grant No. EP/Y029429/1: Transient operando spectroscopy of perovskite nanocrystal LEDs, €0.24M, 2023—2026
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (awarded by EU, funded by UKRI), Fellow: Dr Ganbaatar Tumen-Ulzii, Grant No. EP/Y016912/1: Perovskite X-ray Photon Counting Detector, €0.2M, 2023—2025
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (awarded by EU, funded by UKRI), Fellow: Dr Milos Dubajic, Grant No. EP/Y024648/1: Strain manipulation for Halide Perovskite Performance Improvements, €0.2M, 2023—2025
• Henry Royce Institute Industry Collaboration Programme, Grant No. ICP307: Towards prototype perovskite photon counting X-ray detectors, £0.12M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2023—2024 
• Henry Royce Institute Equipment Call for ‘Materials for the Energy Transition’: Newport QUANTX-300 quantum efficiency system for light harvesting devices including solar cells, £61k, PI: Sam Stranks, 2023-2024

2022:

• Royal Society University Research Fellowship Renewal, Grant No. URF\R\221026: Next-Level Perovskite Optoelectronics, £0.24M, 2022—2025 
• Royal Society University Research Enhanced Research Funds, URF Extension Enhancement Grant, Grant No. RF\ERE\221004, £0.31M, 2022—2025Tsinghua-UCam Collaboration: Nanoscale Characterization of High-Efficiency Semi-Transparent Perovskite Solar Cells, £12K, 2022-2023
• Leverhulme Research Grant, Grant No. RPG-2021-191: Manipulating strain in soft crystalline semiconductors, £0.4M, PI: Sam Stranks, CoI: Aron Walsh (ICL), 2022—2024 
• EPSRC/NSF Grant, Grant No. EP/V06164X/1: Superlattice Architectures for Efficient and Stable Perovskite LEDs, £2.5M, PI: Richard Friend, CoI: Sam Stranks, Neil Greenham, Henry Snaith (Oxford), Seth Marder (Colorado), 2022—2026
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (awarded by EU, funded by UKRI), Fellow: Dr Jian Mao, Grant No. EP/X025764/1: Copper-Based Perovskites with Horizontal Transition Dipole Moment for Highly Efficient Light-Emitting Diodes, €0.16M, 2022—2024
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (awarded by EU, funded by UKRI), Fellow: Dr Youngkwang Jung, Grant No. EP/X025756/1: Unveiling defect-strain relationships in halide perovskite solar cells through modelling-experiment combinations, €0.21M, 2022—2024
• Leverhulme ECR Fellowship, Fellow: Dr Simon Kahmann, Grant No. ECF-2022-593, Hybrid nanostructures for chiral optoelectronics – polarising communication, £170k, 2022-2025

2021:

• EPSRC Standard Grant, Grant No. EP/W004445/1: Revolutionizing Medical Imaging (ReImagine) through Ubiquitous, Low-Dose, Automated Computed Tomography Diagnostic Systems, £0.35M, PI: Sam Stranks, CoIs: Evis Sala, Carola Schoenlieb, Sarah Bugby (Loughborough), John Lees (Leicester), 2021—2023
• EPSRC Standard Grant, Grant No. EP/V012932/1: Earth-abundant catalysts and novel layered 2D perovskites for solar water splitting (H2CAT), £1.2M, PI: Manish Chhowalla, CoI: Sam Stranks, 2021—2024
• EPSRC Standard Grant, Grant No. EP/V027131/1: High-Efficiency Flexible and Scalable Halide-Perovskite Solar Modules, £3M, PI: Ravi Silva (Surrey), CoIs: Sam Stranks (UCam), David Lidzey (Sheffield), Henry Snaith (Oxford), Wei Zhang (Surrey), 2021—2025
• Philip Leverhulme Prize, Grant No. PLP-2021-070: £0.1M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2021—2022
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, Fellow: Dr Terry Yang, Grant No. 891205: Lightweight and Flexible All-Perovskite Triple-junction Solar Cells, €0.21M, 2021—2023 
• Royce Equipment Programme: Multi-channel light-harvesting device stability testing, £40k, PI: Sam Stranks, 2021-2023
• Alliance Hubert Curien Programme, British Council, Project No. 608412749: Electron-Phonon Coupling and Fundamental Properties of Perovskite Semiconductors, £5k, PI: Sam Stranks, 2021-2022

2020:

• EPSRC / Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), Grant No. EP/T02030X/1: Affordable Perovskite Solar Irrigation Systems for Small-holder Farmers in Ethiopia (APSISSFE), £1M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2020—2023
• ERC Proof of Concept Grant, Grant No. 957513: Perovskite Scintillators for X-Ray Imaging (PEROVSCI), €0.15M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2020—2022 
• EPSRC Capital Award for Core Equipment: UV/Vis/NIR Fluorimeter and Radioluminescence Rig, £320k, PI: Sam Stranks, 2020-2021
• Royal Society Enhancement Grant, Grant No. RGF\EA\201015: Hybrid Photonic-Plasmonic Structures for Directional Light Amplification in Perovskites, £0.1M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2020—2021
• Royal Society Research Grant, Grant No. RGS\R1\201483: Synthesis and Photophysical Properties of Lead-Free Perovskite-Inspired Nanocrystals, £20k, PI: Sam Stranks, 2020—2023
• EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account Follow-on Fund: MARS – Monolithic PVK@MOF scintillAtoRS, £0.1M, PI: David Fairen-Jimenez, CoI: Sam Stranks, 2020-2021
• Henry Royce Institute Equipment Call for ‘Materials for the Energy Transition’: Versatile device testing rig in the Ambient Cluster Tool, £20k, PI: Sam Stranks, 2020-2021

2019:

• EPSRC International Centre-to-Centre Research Collaboration Grant, Grant No. EP/S030638/1: UCam-AMOLF Collaboration on Photonic and Optoelectronic Control of Thin-Film LEDs and Solar Cells, £1.6M total, PI: Richard Friend, CoIs: Sam Stranks, Neil Greenham, Akshay Rao, Albert Polman (AMOLF), Bruno Ehrler (AMOLF), Esther Alarcón Lladó (AMOLF), Erik Garnett (AMOLF), 2019—2023
• Faraday Institute Grant No. EP/T007931/1, The development of High-Resolution Optical Microscopies to Evaluate Structural Transformations and Dynamics in Battery Electrodes, £0.63 M, PI: Clare Grey, CoIs: Akshay Rao, Sian Dutton, Sam Stranks, Mete Atature, 2019—2021
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, Fellow: Dr Miguel Anaya, Grant No. 794799: Nanostructured Confined ABX3 Perovskite based Light-Emitting Devices, €0.2M, 2019—2021
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, Fellow: Dr Dominik Kubicki, Grant No. 841136: Atomic-level characterization of multi-component perovskite materials for optoelectronic applications, €0.2M, 2019—2021 
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, Fellow: Dr Elizabeth Tennyson, Grant No. 841265: Local Optoelectronic Visualisation for Enhancing Tandem Perovskite/Silicon Solar Cells, €0.21M, 2019—2021
• Royal Society Newton International Fellowship, Fellow: Dr Satya Nagane, Grant No. NIF\R1\181365, Interfacial Engineering in Perovskite Semiconductors Using Novel Sulfur Containing Multi-Functional Organic Cations for Superior Perovskite Opto-Electronics, £0.1M, 2019—2021

2018:

• EPSRC New Investigator Award, Grant No. EP/R023980/1: The Origin of Non-Radiative Losses in Metal Halide Perovskites, £0.4M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2018—2021
• Royal Society Research Fellows Grant, Grant No. RGF\R1\180002: Charge Carrier Recombination in Unexplored Perovskite Families, £0.15M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2018—2022
• Royal Society International Cost Share Exchange Grant, Grant No. IEC\R2\170108: The Optoelectronic and Material Properties of Perovskite Semiconductors of Different Dimensions, £12k, PI: Sam Stranks, CoI: Paulina Plochocka, 2018—2021
• Royal Society Newton International Fellowship, Fellow: Dr Geraud Delport, Grant No. NF170533, The impact of morphology on the optoelectronic properties of hybrid perovskites, £0.1M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2018—2020

2017:

• European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant, Grant No. 756962: HYbrid PERovskites for Next GeneratION Solar Cells and Lighting (HYPERION), €1.8M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2017—2023
• Royal Society Enhancement Grant, Grant No. RGF\EA\180085: Taking Tunable Metal Halide Perovskites to Their Limits, £0.11M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2017—2021
• Royal Society University Research Fellowship, Grant No. UF150033: Next Generation Perovskite Optoelectronics, £0.5M, PI: Sam Stranks, 2017—2022