Max Ladabaum

Job title: 
Graduate Student Researcher
Affiliation: 
Biophysics
Professor Jun-Chau Chien (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2029 (Anticipated)
Bio/CV: 

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.

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Projects & Publications

Max Ladabaum; Alexander Di; Julian M. Bao; Grigory Tikhomirov; Jun-Chau Chien
Conference Paper (Proceedings), 2026