Samuel is a Patent Scientist with an engineer and academic background in Physics. His coursework mainly consisted of computational physics, machine learning, and theoretical physics. Samuel's MSc degree included an exchange semester at TU Munich with courses at the School of Natural Sciences and in German language, and concluded with a thesis project at the marine energy company Minesto in Gothenburg. The project focused on implementing and developing efficient optimization methods for determining the design of a tidal turbine maximizing its power generation based on fluid flow simulations.