Samuel is co-founder of Vaionex Corporation and its CFO. He is a strong BSV and blockchain enthusiast. As a scientist in Biochemistry he has been awarded the prestigious Roche Postdoc Fellowship (RPF) from F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Switzerland and the Kavli Postdoc Fellowship (KIC) from the renowned Kavli Institute for Nanoscale Science at Cornell University, USA. He mentored two Google Summer of Codes (GSOC) projects and at Cornell, he works as biochemist in chemical and biomolecular engineering, investigating biophysical and biochemical properties of surfaces in biological and biomimetic systems.