Francesco Sciortino
CEO, Proxima Fusion
Energy Nuclear & Fusion Plasma Physics Applied Physics
About
Francesco Sciortino is the CEO of Proxima Fusion, a company developing high-temperature superconducting stellarator fusion energy. He earned his PhD in plasma physics from MIT in 2022, where his research focused on stellarator optimization and plasma equilibrium. Prior to Proxima Fusion, he worked as a postdoc at MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and on SPARC at Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
