Associate tutor in history and philosophy of science at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is also a doctoral researcher in interwar physics.
He studied genetics and immunology at Cambridge University, before doing his masters in molecular biology at Birkbeck. He also studied science, philosophy and religion at the University of Chester at the undergraduate and Master’s level. Samuel is on the board of The Mars Society UK, an ambassador for The Genetics Society UK, as well as on two international academic working groups in the history of physics and technology. He has been involved with students in sending an experiment to the International Space Station, and works regularly in engaging young people with the sciences. As a popular science communicator, he writes monthly for outlets such as The Conversation, and The Institute for Art and Ideas.