What I Do
Hi, I'm Max. I work on scientific software: physics and mathematical modelling, with a focus on optimization and inference. What I care about most is making that kind of software usable. Research tools are often written by researchers for themselves, brilliant under the hood but rough to operate. That's understandable, since a good interface costs time that could go into the research instead. At university I once worked with an astrophysics data tool that came with twenty pages of terminal commands, and one wrong order meant starting over. That stuck with me. Since then my goal has been to build the kind of tools I would want to work with myself: clean, interactive, and genuinely nice to use.
Who I am
My path here wasn't a straight line, and that's kind of the point. I started at a high school focused on design, deep into motion graphics (After Effects) and 3D (Cinema 4D). Then physics pulled me in, almost magnetically, so I studied it at the University of Innsbruck. What fascinated me was that every field speaks its own mathematical language: differential equations in mechanics, vector calculus in electromagnetism, unwieldy matrices in quantum. In my master's I specialized in computational physics, with a foot in computer science, data science, numerics and statistics, and wrote my thesis on Bayesian inference in cosmology. Those two worlds, design and mathematical physics, are what I'm trying to bring together: tools that are rigorous and a joy to use.
My Mindset
I don't identify with a single label, not physicist, not designer, not developer. I think we all share the same foundational instruments: creative thinking, abstraction, mathematical reasoning, just trained in different directions. Mine happen to point at physics, mathematics, and software I care about making beautiful. That's also why I like building with people whose training points elsewhere. The best work comes from that mix. Right now I'm looking to join a team where I can put this combination to work. If that sounds like you, let's talk.
