Max is a PhD candidate in the Resources & Recycling section, CEG TU Delft. He previously obtained his Bachelor (Molecular Science & Technology) and Master (Industrial Ecology) degrees from the TU Delft and Leiden University. His PhD is a part of the NWO project Circular Circuits and focusses on the development of physical separation technologies such as roll sorting and magnetic separation in order to sort electronic components found on discarded printed circuit boards.