Francesco Sciortino
Co-Founder & CEO at Proxima Fusion
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolFrancesco Sciortino is a fusion energy entrepreneur and physicist with eight years of research and leadership experience, currently co-founding and leading Proxima Fusion to develop quasi-isodynamic stellarator power plants in Europe. He holds a PhD in Plasma and High-Temperature Physics from MIT and progressed from hands-on experimental roles at MAGPIE and TCV to postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute, focusing on edge spectroscopy, particle transport and divertor modeling. Francesco has coordinated international fusion research (EUROfusion RT07 negative-triangularity taskforce) and completed science-entrepreneurship fellowships, combining deep technical know-how with startup-building skills. He balances theoretical, computational and experimental expertise—having worked on levitating HTS magnets and rotating-wall transport simulations—giving him a rare bridge between lab-scale physics and practical reactor design. Based in Munich, he brings a pragmatic, physics-first approach to commercialising advanced stellarator concepts and navigating the technical roadmaps toward net-positive fusion power.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Plasma and High-Temperature Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Plasma and High-Temperature Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMsci Physics, Msci Physics at Imperial College LondonMathematics Physics Biology English Italian History, Mathematics Physics Biology English Italian History at International BaccalaureateSwiss-European Mobility Programme - 3rd year exchange Plasma Physics, Swiss-European Mobility Programme - 3rd year exchange Plasma Physics at EPFL
Italian, English, French, Spanish, German
Github Skills (70)
toolbox10
forge10
aurora10
radiation10
julia10
conda10
simulation10
transport10
fusion10
modeling10
conda-forge9
pypi9
singularity-container7
reproducible-science7
package-repository7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Maplenormandy/bsfc
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
Bayesian Spectral Fitting Code(s)
Contributions:1 PR, 72 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
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fsciortino/sharebox
Nov 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:175 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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