Max Mankin

Max Mankin is a co-founder and the CTO of Modern Electron, an energy technology startup based in the Seattle area, whose mission is to generate cheap, scalable, and reliable electricity for all. He has nearly a decade of experience designing, fabricating, and characterizing semiconductors and functional nanomaterials. Max is an author on a dozen publications and an inventor on 25+ patents and patents pending.

During graduate school, Max was figuratively thrown into the deep end of an optics lab. He was lucky enough to find a mentor, Arthur McClelland, who later became his co-author of a book to help others navigate their way through an optics lab!

Max was named one of Inc. Magazine's Most Brilliant Entrepreneurs Under 30 in 2017 and honored on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2016. Max earned a BS with honors in chemistry from Brown University and a PhD in physical chemistry from Harvard University, where he held fellowships from both the Hertz and the National Science Foundations.