Maxwell Li

Maxwell Li is a staff R&D chemist at Sherwin-Williams, where they focus on addressing product defects in packaging coatings. Previously, they served as a senior R&D chemist in the same company and held various research positions, including postdoctoral research associate at Carnegie Mellon University and multiple research assistant roles at institutions like the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and National Taiwan University. Maxwell earned a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, complementing a Master's and a Bachelor’s degree in the same field. Their early research included work on autonomous-healing lithium-ion batteries and chiral magnetic features for advanced computing applications.