Massimiliano "Max" Delferro is a senior chemist and group leader of the Catalysis Science Program in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory and senior scientist in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. He obtained is PhD from the University of Parma working under the supervision of Prof. Daniele Cauzzi. After a postdoc with Prof. Tobin Marks at Northwestern University, he became a Research Professor at Northwestern University. In 2016, he joined Argonne where he currently works on the chemical recycling of plastics and the development of supported organometallic catalysis for C-H and C-C transformation. He is the Deputy Director of the “Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics” (iCOUP), an Energy Frontier Research Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. He is also the Argonne initiative leader for “Science for a Circular Economy”. He published more than 150 publications and hold more than 30 patents. He is a member of the editorial board of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces and member of several prestigious organizations, including the American Chemical Society and the Catalysis Society. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).