Maximilian (Max) Besenhard

Maximilian (Max) Besenhard is a lecturer in Digital Manufacturing of Advanced Materials in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University College London (UCL). He trained as a physicist, earning a BSc and an MSc in Technical Physics from Graz University of Technology in Austria. He then moved into chemical and pharmaceutical engineering for his PhD, completed in 2011 at the Institute of Process and Particle Engineering in Graz, where he worked on continuous pharmaceutical production. After about six years at Siemens and the Research Center Pharmaceutical Engineering (RCPE) in Austria, he returned to academia as a postdoctoral researcher at UCL in 2016. He was briefly a lecturer at the University of Leeds before rejoining UCL in 2022 to lead the Digital Manufacturing of Advanced Materials programme and its MSc. His recent research focuses on autonomous, model-guided HPLC method development and self-driving laboratories.