Board of Directors
Francesco VOLPE
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Francesco is a physicist and has been passionate about fusion since the age of 16. He dedicated his studies to heating, diagnosing and stabilizing fusion plasmas and liquid metals. For his research, he received the 2003 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Gesellschaft, the 2011 DOE Early Career Award and the 2015 Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award. Having worked on all major magnetic fusion concepts, he came to the conclusion that simplified stellarators are the north star and a start-up is the way to reach it. After earning his Executive MBA at ESCP Europe, he co-founded Renaissance Fusion in 2020.
Clea KOLSTER
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Sylvie RICHARD
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Responsable de la conceptionTout commence par une idée. Peut-être voulez-vous créer une entreprise. Peut-être voulez-vous donner une nouvelle dimension à un passe-temps.
Simon BELKA
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Simon holds a master’s in mechanical engineering from the Paristech School, Ecole Nationale des Ponts & Chaussées, and an Executive MBA from ESCP. Simon started his career as an engineer at Airbus & Renault. He then worked as a project manager on several industrialization projects of the Airbus A350 program. Simon then moved to several executive positions such as Bid & Projects Director, Strategy & Marketing Director at Ascent Integration, General manager of a business line at Atlas Copco. He finally joined Renaissance Fusion in February 2022.
Giorgio ANANIA
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Responsable de la conceptionTout commence par une idée. Peut-être voulez-vous créer une entreprise. Peut-être voulez-vous donner une nouvelle dimension à un passe-temps.
Founders & Executives
Francesco VOLPE
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Francesco is a physicist and has been passionate about fusion since the age of 16. He dedicated his studies to heating, diagnosing and stabilizing fusion plasmas and liquid metals. For his research, he received the 2003 Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Gesellschaft, the 2011 DOE Early Career Award and the 2015 Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award. Having worked on all major magnetic fusion concepts, he came to the conclusion that simplified stellarators are the north star and a start-up is the way to reach it. After earning his Executive MBA at ESCP Europe, he co-founded Renaissance Fusion in 2020.
Martin KUPP
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Martin is an Associate Professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at the ESCP Business School, Paris and at the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin. He has had a passion for deeptech entrepreneurship ever since meeting Francesco for the first time in 2019. Martin’s research focuses on entrepreneurial decision-making, venture scaling and team dynamics in deeptech ventures.
Diego CAMMARANO
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Diego Cammarano joined Renaissance Fusion as its first employee in March 2021, where he is now the COO. Always looking for ways to put his skills at the service of the others, he has previously held field positions in several medical projects at Dasit spa and IBA. Diego holds an MBA from ESMT Berlin, an MSc in Nuclear engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan and an MSc in Industrial engineering from École Centrale Paris .
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Simon BELKA
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Simon holds a master’s in mechanical engineering from the Paristech School, Ecole Nationale des Ponts & Chaussées, and an Executive MBA from ESCP. Simon started his career as an engineer at Airbus & Renault. He then worked as a project manager on several industrialization projects of the Airbus A350 program. Simon then moved to several executive positions such as Bid & Projects Director, Strategy & Marketing Director at Ascent Integration, General manager of a business line at Atlas Copco. He finally joined Renaissance Fusion in February 2022.
Business Operations
HTS Team
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Achraf EL MOHAJIR
Group Leader, Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD)
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Denis BARKATS
Senior Experimental Physicist
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Hervé ROUCH
CFD Modeler of (MO)CVD
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Julián GARCÍA PANIZO
Experimental Mechanical Engineer
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Jorge VILHENA
Mechanical Engineer
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Rattena TANG
Automation Engineer
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Vincent NICOLAS
Vacuum & Material Technician
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Fusion & Liquid Metal Teams
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Victor PROST
Group Leader, Nuclear Systems Engineering
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Achilleas EVANGELIAS
Stellarator Equilibrium Physicist
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Diego PEREIRA BOTELHO
Stellarator Groove Modeler
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Lorenzo BORTOT
Magnet Engineer - Modeler
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Nathaniel BAKER
Liquid Metal Experimentalist
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Nicolas LOUIS
Mechanical Engineer
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Sami MEDDEB
Liquid Metal Corrosion Specialist
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The on-site Renaissance Fusion team proudly works with remote and visiting, world-class advisors and collaborators.
Strategic Commitee
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Stefano BERNARDI
Investor @ Unruly Capital & Smallholding, Scout @ Atomico
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Pjotr VAN SCHOTHORST
Investor @ PVS Investments
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Gijs Van der HULST
Founding Partner @ Positron Ventures
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Business Advisors
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Ezio DAL MASO
Senior Associate @ Stephenson Harwood
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Emmanuel ORTIZ
General Manager @ Three O Construction, formerly @ GE Vernova
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Diane OUANDJI
Manager @ KPMG Canada
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Technical Advisors
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Kazunobu NAGASAKI
Professor @ Kyoto University
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Sergei SMOLENTSEV
Researcher @ UCLA
We are also very grateful to Stewart PRAGER (PPPL) and Ron PRATER (General Atomics), now both retired, for having advised Renaissance Fusion during its first steps.
Collaborators in Europe
Collaborators in the USA
Are you a University, National Lab or private company developing top-notch Fusion, HTS, Liquid Metals and related technologies?
Join the cause! Contact us at collaborate@renfusion.eu
We are lucky to work or have worked with amazing, energetic students:
Francesca Rita FAMÁ - Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Deborah SELEMON - now at University of York
Simone DEL NERO - Università degli Studi della Tuscia
Paulo FIGUEIREDO - Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
Sabine OGIER-COLLIN - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Remi ROBIN - Sorbonne Université, Paris
Erol BALKOVIC - Case Western Reserve University, now at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Are you a gifted, resourceful student seeking a research project of 6 months or longer?
Contact us at collaborate@renfusion.eu or check the FuseNet matchmaking site!
Last but absolutely not the least
We work relentlessly every day to make fusion smaller, faster, cheaper, safer and simpler. We use creativity, agility, originality, passion and hard work, to continuously improve.
