Francesco Sciortino
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Francesco Sciortino is the co-founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion. After studying at Imperial College and EPFL, he conducted research on magnetic confinement fusion during his PhD in plasma physics and fusion energy at MIT. He then joined the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, where he served as one of the European coordinators for tokamak research. He is known at Proxima Fusion for shifting his focus from tokamaks to stellarators after developments in stellarator research in 2022 and for defining a path aimed at faster commercialization of fusion energy.
Updated 28 October 2026
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