Maximilian B. Gorensek is a Senior Fellow in the Advanced Modeling, Simulation, and Analytics Group at the Savannah River National Laboratory with over 35 years of professional experience. He holds BS and MS degrees from Case Western Reserve University and a PhD from Princeton, all in chemical engineering. As a co-Principal Investigator for the RAPID Center for Process Modeling, his current areas of research include modeling and simulation of a broad range of chemical processes, from biomass pyrolysis to carbon capture to high-temperature water-splitting hydrogen production to nuclear waste treatment. Dr. Gorensek is also an adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina and a former Associate Editor of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Before joining SRNL in 2002, he worked in the commercial chemical industry, where his experience spanned the range from bench and pilot-scale process development and catalyst testing, through steady-state and dynamic modeling and simulation of plant processes and flowsheet development, to plant and licensing technical support. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (Ohio and New Jersey) and has 4 patents and about 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications and book chapters. Dr. Gorensek is a Fellow of the AIChE and a Director and past Chair of the Nuclear Engineering Division.