Lucio Milanese

Lucio Milanese is Co-Founder and COO of Proxima Fusion, and a theoretical plasma physicist with an academic career spanning three continents. After undergraduate studies in physics at Imperial College London and short research stints at the California Institute of Technology and EPFL, he joined the Nuclear Science and Engineering department at MIT in 2016, where he carried out research on computational plasma turbulence with applications to fusion and astrophysical environments, publishing results in top academic journals. In 2021-2022 he pursued, as a Schwarzman Scholar, a Master of Management in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing. His passion lies at the intersection of technology, business and policy.