May 7, 2025

Visiting student awarded PhD in Munich

By njh@slac.stanf…

Max Maigler with PhD Examiners — Max Maigler (center) with PhD examiners including Prof. Barbel Rethfeld (second from left) and Prof. Siegfried Glenzer (second from right).

Max Maigler, who worked with the HEDS division while a visiting student at Stanford, was awarded his PhD summa cum laude from the University of the Bundeswehr Munich for his thesis "Atomic-Scale Simulation of keV Xenon Ion Irradiation-Induced Erosion in Spacecraft Electric Thruster Materials".