Bio: Max Silva-Feaver completed his bachelor’s in physics from Santa Clara University in 2015. In 2015-2016, he worked on developing microwave multiplexing electronics for X-ray and CMB sensor applications and designing the DM-Radio pathfinder experiment as a research assistant for Prof. Kent Irwin at Stanford University. He completed his doctorate in 2023, advised by Prof. Kam Arnold on developing the readout electronics and deploying the first Small Aperture Telescope for the Simons Observatory. He started as a Mossman Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University’s Wright Laboratory in 2023, working on the analysis of Simons Observatory Small Aperture Telescope data and design and construction of the ALPHA and HAYSTAC-phase III axion haloscopes.
He believes that developing room for young members to succeed in large science collaborations is as essential as individual university support. To this end, he has actively developed structural changes to improve graduate and postdoctoral researcher representation within the Simons Observatory and ALPHA projects.
