Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Max joined IHMC in January 2026, with the Healthspan, Resilience, and Performance team as a post doc under Dr. Marcas Bamman. He is currently working on a variety of projects with the common thread of skeletal muscle regulation. Max also aims to develop his own projects studying tissue samples collected from ongoing trials.

Prior to joining IHMC, Max completed his undergraduate in 2020 in Exercise Science at Auburn University, his master’s in 2022 at Wake Forest University in Health and Exercise science, and his PhD in 2025 at Auburn University in exercise physiology under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Roberts.

In his spare time Max enjoys golfing, weightlifting, and watching sports.