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Bob Mumgaard

Co-Founder and CEO

About

Bob Mumgaard is co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the MIT spin-out chasing the world's first commercially viable fusion power plant. He did his PhD work at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center on small superconducting tokamaks built around high-temperature superconductors, and with Brandon Sorbom, Zach Hartwig, and Dan Brunner he formed the SPARC Underground that grew into CFS in 2018. Under his leadership the company has raised nearly $3 billion from investors including Tiger Global, Temasek, Eni, and NVIDIA, and is constructing the SPARC tokamak in Devens, Massachusetts. He holds a PhD in applied plasma physics and an MS in nuclear engineering from MIT, and a BS in mechanical engineering and engineering physics from the University of Nebraska.

Notable work

  • Commonwealth Fusion Systems
  • Fusion Energy
  • Plasma Physics
  • Superconducting Magnets

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