‘Portrait of Dr Sam Naghibi’, Acrylic on Canvas, 5’x3’, 2024 — Winner of Liverpool Architecture Festival’s Painting Prize, 2024
Dr Sam Naghibi is a physical chemist from Tehran, Iran, based in Liverpool. In 2021, he discovered the transistor behaviour of verdazyl molecules when working on his PhD. His doctorate thesis has been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Angewandte Chemie and Journal of Materials Chemistry. Simon painted Sam in The Collegiate, a Grade I listed building designed by renowned architect, Harvey Lonsdale Elmes.
The painting was displayed at dot-art, Liverpool, as part of their 2024 exhibition, ‘’A Window to Your Neighbourhood’’.
