Max Ladabaum received his B.S. in Physics from UC Santa Barbara in 2022. After graduation, he worked as a device physicist at Illumina, helping develop new methods to sequence DNA. Max began his PhD in Biophysics at UC Berkeley in 2024 and is coadvised by Prof. Jun-Chau Chien and Prof. Grigory Tikhomirov. Max is interested in pairing DNA nanotechnology with CMOS-based sensors in order to improve signal, specificity, and scale of biosensors.