Francesco Sciortino
Co-Founder & CEO at Proxima Fusion | Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in July 2026 - July 2026
Scientific Coordinator at EUROfusion in July 2026 - July 2026
BSF Fellow at Wilbe | Home for Scientist Leaders in July 2026 - July 2026
Doctoral Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in July 2026 - July 2026
Research Assistant at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in July 2026 - July 2026
Graduate Research Assistant at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in July 2026 - July 2026
MSci Thesis Project at the TCV Tokamak (CRPP-EPFL) at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) in July 2026 - July 2026
Undergraduate Research Assistant at Imperial College London in July 2026 - July 2026
Visiting Student at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in July 2026 - July 2026
Intern at GEA Group in July 2026 - July 2026
Co-Founder & CEO at Proxima Fusion in July 2026 - Present
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, January 2016 to January 2021
Imperial College London, Msci, January 2012 to January 2016
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Swiss-European Mobility Programme - 3rd year exchange, January 2014 to January 2015
AI Founder turned frontier tech VC
Partner at Speedinvest
(Aug 2025 – Present)
Building high-capability deep-tech organisations. Leadership Coach.
Head of People at Proxima Fusion
(Sep 2024 – Present)
General Partner at Balderton Capital
Investor at Mozart AI
(Dec 2025 – Present)
General Partner, UVC Partners
At Proxima, we are working towards fusion power plants based on quasi-isodynamic stellarators. We see Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X), the most advanced stellarator in the world based in Greifswald, as showing the clearest and most robust path to fusion energy.
We believe that Europe ...
Early-stage VC | Deep Tech & Climate Tech | Board Member | Ex Founder & CEO
Multi-Stage Venture Capital Platform with € 3bn AUM
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