Malte is originally from Berlin, Germany, where he completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Freie Universität Berlin in the group of Dr. Moritz Malischewski, investigating cyanometallates in superacids and as building blocks for supramolecular chemistry, as well as perfluorinated cyclopentadienide chemistry. He then moved to Freiburg in southern Germany to join the group of Prof. Ingo Krossing for his PhD as a Kekulé fellow. There his research focused on strong and selective electron acceptors under pseudo-gas-phase conditions, leading to the isolation of parent acenium mono- and dications, novel transition metal carbonyl cations and alkane complexes, alongside studies of new weakly coordinating solvents. Following his PhD, Malte moved to Basel, Switzerland, to take up a postdoctoral position with Prof. Oliver Wenger, supported by a Leopoldina Postdoctoral Fellowship. His work there centred on the photophysical characterisation of perhalogenated transition metal isocyanide complexes. In July 2026, Malte joined the Peeks group at UNSW Sydney, where his research focuses on molecular wires tuning electronic coupling between two metal centres.