Fusion energy company building the first commercial stellarator-based power plant with high-temperature superconductors.
Founders
Francesco Sciortino(Italy · ♂)— A fusion physicist who shifted from tokamaks to stellarators at the Max Planck Institute, Sciortino co-founded Proxima Fusion in 2023 as its first IPP spin-out to commercialize stellarator fusion power plants.
Lucio Milanese(Italy · ♂)— A plasma physicist trained at MIT, Milanese co-founded Proxima Fusion to bring stellarator-based fusion energy to commercialization.
Jorrit Lion(Germany · ♂)— A Max Planck stellarator scientist, Lion co-founded Proxima Fusion to build on Wendelstein 7-X advances toward a commercial fusion plant.
Jonathan Schilling(Germany · ♂)— A stellarator researcher and engineer at the Max Planck IPP, Schilling co-founded Proxima Fusion to engineer optimized stellarator fusion systems.
Martin Kubie(United Kingdom · ♂)— A moonshot engineer from Google X, Kubie co-founded Proxima Fusion bringing hardware-engineering rigor to the stellarator fusion startup.
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