Biography
Max Werny is an Investor and PhD chemist at Clean Energy Ventures and is based in Europe.
Prior tojoining Clean Energy Ventures, Max served as an Associate at Zero CarbonCapital, where he spearheaded the fund's expansion across the DACH region andled an investment in a sustainable aviation fuel company. He also worked in aninvestment role at Extantia Capital, where he sourced and led due diligence forseed-stage investments in metal recovery, biomining, and direct air capture.Max brings two years of chemical industry experience, having taken oncommercial and technical leadership positions focused on industrial catalystdevelopment, techno-economic modelling, carbon dioxide valorization, andprecious metal recycling at Heraeus Precious Metals, BASF, and Alantum.
Max earned aPhD in Catalysis & Spectroscopy from the Institute for Sustainable &Circular Chemistry at Utrecht University, where he was a recipient of the 2024Golden Thesis Award of the Dutch Polymer Institute. He completed his Master ofScience (MSc) and Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Chemistry at the TechnicalUniversity of Munich, was a visiting researcher at the Fritz-Haber-Institute ofthe Max Planck Society in Berlin, and a visiting scholar at the NationalUniversity of Singapore.