Maximilian Urban

Co-Founder at Amplifold, DNA Nanotechnology

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

Experience

  • Managing Director and Co-Founder at Amplifold
    May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    Democratizing diagnostics through affordable, high-accuracy immunoassays - powered by DNA origami signal amplification

  • Spin-off project leader at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
    Nov 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

    DNA nanotechnology, DNA origami, plasmonic nanoparticles, immunoassays

  • Inventor and Project Leader at Smartprobes
    Oct 2020 - Oct 2025 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    5 years full focus on product market fit LMU spin-off project: DNA nanotechnology for better immunoassays. funded by: the Medical Valley Award, Gobio Initial, Exist Forschungstransfer non-dilutive funding under the akronym "Smartprobes", founded 2025 as GmbH under the name Amplifold

  • Co-Founder at Lab10 UG
    Apr 2021 - Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    computer vision device for the lab of the future (Life Sciences): manual experiments are translated into machine readable code, a computer vision algorithm recognises e.g. pipetting volumes, errors in the execution of the protocol. The resulting code is used to set up automated liquid handlers

  • Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Stuttgart Region)
    • Guest Scientist
      Jul 2016 - Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      bottom-up synthetic biology, DNA nanotechnology, optics

    • PHD Student
      Nov 2014 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos