Max Sauer (M.Sc.) studied business informatics at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Villingen-Schwenningen. He completed his master's degree in business informatics at the University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg.

Since March 2022, he has been working as a research scientist in the Software Engineering (SE) research department at the FZI Research Centre for Information Technology. His research focuses on the interplay between user experience and information security, especially of digital identity wallets.

At the same time, Max Sauer is doing his PhD at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and is being supervised by his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Andreas Oberweis.