{"id":23837,"date":"2026-06-09T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/?p=23837"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:00:27","slug":"max-fisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/?p=23837","title":{"rendered":"Max Fisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a multi-award-winning disability and LGBTQIA+ activist, and in 2024 I was recognised as the UK&#039;s most influential disabled scientist. I speak extensively about intersectionality in the workplace and my experiences as a queer, DeafBlind, and disabled person in STEM. I work hard to be a role model for other marginalised people interested in science, as well as for the future scientists of tomorrow. I have been an intersectional activist and advocate for over a decade, spending most of that time championing dignity and respect for all. In my professional life, I am a registered scientist (RSci) with The Science Council and a member of Royal Society of Biology (MRSB). I currently work as a senior research associate in nanomedicine, growing cells in flasks and talking to robots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am a multi-award-winning disability and LGBTQIA+ activist, and in 2024 I was recognised as the UK&#039;s most influential disabled scientist. I speak extensively about intersectionality in the workplace and my experiences as a queer, DeafBlind, and disabled person in STEM. I work hard to be a role model for other marginalised people interested in&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/?p=23837\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"location":[920],"class_list":["post-23837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular-biology","location-cambridge"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23837"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/500queerscientists.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Flocation&post=23837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}