Maxim was born in Belgium in 1995. After graduating from his Bachelor in Applied Computer Science at the Erasmushogeschool Brussels (2016), he earned his Master of Science in Applied Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2019). His Master's thesis was on Indoor Navigation by Centralized Trackingand led to his further career as a PhD student researching Hybrid Positioning and Implicit Human-Computer Interaction under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Beat Signer. Maxim is actively involved in the development of the open source hybrid positioning system OpenHPS, which was released in 2020.