It was an honor today to welcome Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (BMBF) to the Proxima Fusion offices in #Munich. Our team was delighted to introduce the Minister to our simulation-driven approach to engineering and the #HTS magnet technology that will enable the world’s first stellarator fusion power plant. We were also excited to share for the first time some of the exciting results of our #AI efforts, which the BMBF itself is supporting financially. The visit concluded with a productive discussion on establishing a political and regulatory framework that will accelerate the path to putting fusion on the grid in Europe. Minister Stark-Watzinger once again affirmed her commitment to supporting public-private partnerships to make commercial #fusionenergy a reality. Thank you, Minister Stark-Watzinger, for your continued support, and for inspiring us to keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible as we build a fusion-powered future in Germany 🇩🇪 and Europe 🇪🇺 .
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Are you ready to shape the future of #fusionenergy? Come join our rapidly expanding, mission-driven team! Proxima Fusion is hiring for the following roles: 🔧 Senior Cryogenics Engineer 💻 Research Software Engineer ⚙️ Simulation Infrastructure Lead ⚡ Senior Plasma Physicist 🌎 Head of International Policy …among so many more! If you're passionate about working alongside leading fusion scientists and engineers to make limitless clean energy a reality, we want to hear from you: https://lnkd.in/dWusGvPy
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We were glad to support the first version of a new Fusion Reactor Design course, a collaboration between Technische Universität Graz and Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich). The course brought together 25+ students from both universities to work on the conceptual design of a stellarator experiment for teaching and research purposes. Key topics and instructors included: 🔹 Stellarator Optimization with Christopher Albert of TU Graz 🔹 Magnets with Proxima Co-Founder Jonathan Schilling 🔹 Vacuum Vessel Design with Robert Schennach of TU Graz 🔹 Diagnostics with Gregor Birkenmeier of TU Munich 🔹 Heating with Ulrich Stroth of TU Munich The course aimed to design a #stellarator able to be built by university students at a Master’s level, with the following design goals: ✔️ Compact size, with the ability to fit through a standard door ✔️ Magnetic field magnitude of 87.5 mT, so that the plasma can by heated with 2.45 GHz microwaves ✔️ Windows to observe inside the vacuum chamber ✔️ Measurable flux surfaces ✔️ Fast particles, with a kinetic energy of around 200 eV ✔️ An ultra-high vacuum of below 10^-8 mbar Stay tuned for future courses, in which students will start building this stellarator!
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🌟 Happy Birthday to IPP-Greifswald! 🌟 This year marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Greifswald branch of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, now home to the world’s most advanced stellarator, W7-X. With invaluable contributions from Proxima’s technical advisors Lutz Wegener and Felix Schauer, the record-breaking W7-X experiment has been paving the most promising path to the commercialization of #fusionenergy. As the first spin-out company in the history of the IPP, Proxima is building on decades of groundbreaking #stellarator research since this visionary project began thirty years ago.
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Our magnet team recently gathered at the PSI Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland, where we’re collaborating with PSI’s Magnet Development Laboratory on the development of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology. Proxima team members—alongside our technical advisor Felix Schauer—kicked off this closely integrated collaboration with a working session that included a technical deep dive, laying out our plans for process development and prototyping. Partnering with the experts and state-of-the-art facilities at PSI empowers us to accelerate our demonstration of HTS magnet technology and de-risk this critical component for #stellarator fusion power plants. Together, we’re forging the future of HTS magnet innovation. 🧲⚡
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Stellarator enthusiasts unite! 💫 The Proxima team was delighted to host a summer BBQ with over a dozen friends and colleagues from the Garching branch of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics—discussing stellarators of all sorts, the ways we’re overcoming the limits of tokamaks, and how we’re accelerating the path to the first fusion power plants. Here’s to the next generation of #fusionenergy pioneers!
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Honored to welcome to the Proxima Fusion offices in Munich Robert Schlögl and Jan Wörner from the Bavarian Fusion Expert Committee, as well as Andrea Lübcke and Cyril Stephanos from the German National Academy of Sciences. We have discussed how to best achieve the goals of the Bavarian Government and its "Mission Kernfusion" program. The race to commercial #fusionenergy brings exciting opportunities to build a new industry in Bavaria, and leveraging those opportunities will require facilitating public-private partnerships and deploying R&D funding for critical engineering solutions. Looking forward to continuing a productive conversation that serves the entire fusion ecosystem!
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Proxima Fusion is thrilled to be awarded a €2.5M grant and an opportunity for €15M investment from the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) as part of the #EICAccelerator program! We are among the 68 #deeptech startups selected out of 969 applicants, judged on the criteria of excellence, impact, and risk level. The €17.5M award in blended financing is dedicated to the design of our net-energy #stellarator, and will involve a series of milestone deliverables grounded in sound engineering and solid science—critical for measuring progress in the global race to commercial #fusionenergy. Thanks to the EIC, we’re one step closer to our mission of building stellarators to power the future and leading Europe into a new era of #cleanenergy, for good. 🇪🇺⚡ Read more: https://lnkd.in/efmutNrw
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While leading the development of the record-breaking W7-X stellarator at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Lutz Wegener (W7-X Head of Assembly) and Felix Schauer (W7-X Head of Cryogenics, then Head of Internal Components) couldn’t have known they would later mentor a team of physicists and engineers at Proxima Fusion. Together with Lutz and Felix, we're working to design and build the next generation of stellarators. Felix and Lutz have been advisors to Proxima since the very beginning of our journey, supporting us in engineering design, large-scale project planning, and industry partnerships. We’re grateful to have them on board and look forward to years of exciting progress together!
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Championing a fusion-powered future in Europe 🇪🇺 Proxima Fusion was proud to participate in this week's EU Fusion Business Forum, bringing together #fusionenergy companies, suppliers, and industrial suppliers from across Europe. Proxima Co-Founder Lucio Milanese presented on opportunities within the growing fusion supply chain—including magnets, coil and intercoil support structures, and remote maintenance—as well as Proxima's path to commercial fusion power plants. As German Minister for Research and Education Bettina Stark-Watzinger stated in her keynote speech: "In Germany and Europe, we have strong technological leadership. Now is an ideal time to translate this leadership into commercial efforts to put fusion electricity on the grid."
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