Max Friedfeld obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Virginia in 2011. Max went on to receive his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton University in 2016 under the mentorship of Professor Paul Chirik where he studied cobalt-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation reactions. He is currently a Washington Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington, studying nanomaterial nucleation and growth mechanisms under the mentorship of Professor Brandi Cossairt.
