Marcin Jakubowski is the founder and Executive Director of Open Source Ecology, with 11 years of leadership building the Global Village Construction Set—an open-source toolkit of 50 industrial machines designed to decentralize modern production and lower the cost of building resilient local economies. Trained as a physicist (Ph.D., fusion physics) and chemist (Princeton), he combines rigorous scientific thinking with hands-on fabrication at his Factor e Farm in rural Missouri, where ideas are prototyped into freely published blueprints. Recognized as a TED Senior Fellow, Shuttleworth Fellow, and White House Champion of Change, Marcin blends public-facing advocacy with practical systems engineering to advance an open-source economy. Less obvious: he intentionally shifted from academic fusion research to applied, community-led manufacturing, turning theoretical problem solving into a real-world program for distributed, self-replicating production.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at U. Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor's Degree, Chemistry, Bachelor's Degree, Chemistry at Princeton University
Contributions:64 commits, 8 PRs, 56 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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Marcin Jakubowski - Executive Director at Open Source Ecology