Dr. Max Besenhard

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Max Besenhard has a background in physics and received both his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Technical Physics from Graz University of Technology. He transitioned into chemical and pharmaceutical engineering, earning a PhD focused on continuous pharmaceutical production at the Institute of Process and Particle Engineering and the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE) in Graz. Following several years in the industry working with Siemens and at RCPE, he returned to academia in 2016 as a postdoctoral research associate at University College London (UCL), where he contributed to various projects involving continuous syntheses of noble metal magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications and advanced functional materials. His research includes multiphase high-temperature flow reactors and nature-inspired nanomaterial shape tuning, and he employs hybrid computational approaches to enhance HPLC method development. In September 2021, he worked at the University of Leeds as a lecturer in the School of Chemical and Process Engineering, before returning to UCL in April 2022 to lead the Digital Manufacturing Advanced Materials program and the associated MSc program.

Research Interests

Experience

Lecturer

2022-04-01 — Present

University College London • London, United Kingdom

Leading the Digital Manufacturing Advanced Materials programme.

Lecturer

2021-09-01 — 2022-04-01

University of Leeds, School of Chemical and Process Engineering • United Kingdom

Postdoctoral Research Associate

2016-08-01 — 2021-09-01

University College London, Department of Chemical Engineering • United Kingdom

Conducted research in various areas including continuous syntheses and advanced materials.

Senior Scientist

2014-12-01 — 2016-08-01

Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering, Area Simulation Process Modelling • Graz, Austria

Scientist

2010-09-01 — 2014-12-01

Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering, Area Simulation Process Modelling • Graz, Austria

Research Scientist

2010-10-01 — 2014-10-01

Siemens • Austria