Max Brichta
Max Brichta
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE)
Max's research focuses on the ways digital finance shapes how we spend, invest, and make meaning around our economic lives.
Max is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Virginia working with the Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE) initiative. His current research seeks to detail how financial and media literacy collide in the digital age, and how that impacts young adults' financial well-being. He's also a research fellow with Communication Technology Research Lab (CTRL) based out of the University of Pittsburgh in which he studies the nexus of cryptocurrency and disinformation. He holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Southern California.