Martin Max, graduated from Bocconi University in Milan and received a PhD in Cognitive Neurosciences from Princeton University.

He is Professor at University of California (UCLA), in the Departments of Psychology and Neurosurgery.

He is married to Caroline Schnakers, PhD in Clinical Psychology, Assistant Director at the Research Institute of Casa Colina, and researcher in the Department of Neurosurgery at UCLA.  

They have two children: Sebastian Avi and Anaïs Rori.