Dr. Francesco Sciortino

Francesco Sciortino is Co-Founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion. He studied at Imperial College London, EPFL, and MIT before working at the Max Planck Society and becoming inspired by the W7-X stellarator experiment. In January 2023, he co-founded Proxima Fusion, the first-ever spin-out company from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. Proxima is designing the first generation of stellarator fusion power plants—the clearest, most robust path to commercial fusion.