Samuel Korenberg
Physical Natural Sciences · Cambridge

Samuel
Korenberg

Undergraduate reading Physical Natural Sciences at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. When not in the laboratory or working through physics problems, I build software, design electronics, explore forgotten architecture, and shoot 35mm and digital photography.

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Room Temperature Ionic Liquid synthesis project
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Hardware prototypes, web applications, and computational models.
St John's College courtyard, University of Cambridge
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Academics

Competitions, Olympiad Gold, and the route to Cambridge.
Samuel Korenberg in clinical scrubs during NHS work experience
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Professional

Work experience, starting with two weeks at the Whittington Hospital.
An egret perched atop a Cape buffalo on safari
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Photography

Photo series from Vienna, Gdańsk and further afield.
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  1. Setting Up Hermes, My Always-On AI Agent How I set up Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent I talk to over Telegram, and what it's like having something that builds, researches and runs errands for me. Software 6 min
  2. Building a World Cup Sweepstake Tracker A live sweepstake tracker for World Cup 2026, built on Cloudflare Pages and Workers with push notifications, entirely through my own AI agent setup and Claude Code. Software 3 min
  3. Why Eight? Unpacking the Octet Why do atoms 'want' eight electrons? Following the octet rule down through energy, entropy and the shapes of orbitals to find where the number eight actually comes from. Chemistry · Physics 8 min