Keith LeChien — Founder and CTO at Pacific Fusion

About Keith LeChien

Keith LeChien is Founder and CTO at Pacific Fusion. Location: Livermore, California, United States.

Skills

Experimentation
Physics
Leadership

Additional experience

Principal Research Scientist and Tech Lead
X, the moonshot factory
July 2022 – May 2023

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), University of Missouri-Columbia

Current role

Title: Founder and CTO
Company: Pacific Fusion
Location: Livermore, California, United States
Started: June 2023

About Pacific Fusion

Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 to deliver commercial fusion energy to power cities, businesses and homes. We're rapidly designing and building a pulser-driven inertial fusion system to achieve net facility gain – more fusion energy output than stored energy input – by 2030. Our plans are ambitious. We have raised over $900M so far from incredible investors, resourcing us to deliver on these plans. We are bringing together the best scientists, engineers, and operators from the fusion community, hard tech industry, and other sectors. We are united by a shared sense of urgency to provide clean power for the world, particularly managing climate change while meeting growing global energy demand. You can read more about us in this letter from our founders: https://pacificfusion.com/updates/founders-letter

Industry: Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
Company size: 51-200
Website: pacificfusion.com

About Keith LeChien

Skills

Additional experience

Principal Research Scientist and Tech Lead

Education