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Maximilian obtained his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the University of Würzburg in 2021 and then moved to Hamburg for his Master’s studies. In November 2023, he joined the research group of Natalie Banerji in Bern, Switzerland, for a PhD project. His research focusses on chemical doping of organic semiconducting polymers and photo(electro)catalysis.

Bryan is a Jesuit priest and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Trine University, and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, under the direction Prof. C. Daniel Frisbie. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University under the direction of Prof. Jonathan Rivnay. As part of his religious formation, he also earned a Masters of Arts in Social Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago, and a Masters of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology – Santa Clara University. At Notre Dame his lab develops organic mixed ionic-electronic conductor (OMIEC) materials and devices for bioelectronic, chemical sensing, and energy management applications. He has particular interests in fundamental structure-property investigations leveraging in situ and operando synchrotron X-ray studies, and the application of hysteretic transport in OMIECs to enable innovative device functionality.