Marathon
Fusion

Industrial-scale isotope production for critical industries

Marathon was co-founded in 2023 by Adam Rutkowski, previously a Propulsion Engineer at SpaceX and PhD candidate in Plasma Physics at Princeton University, and Kyle Schiller, previously a Science Policy Fellow at Schmidt Futures.

We believed then, and now more than ever, that fusion is humanity's best path to abundant, clean and reliable energy.

Marathon is supported by $18m in funding across the US Department of Energy, Breakthrough Energy's fellows program and leading private investors.

Marathon team at work
Leadership
Kyle Schiller, CEO
Schmidt Futures
Adam Rutkowski, CTO
SpaceXPrinceton University
Business
Ashley Haylett
OtherlabYelp
Julia Pamilih
Harvard Kennedy SchoolUK Parliament
Science
Jason Parisi, PhD
University of OxfordPrinceton Plasma Physics Lab
Jacob Schwartz, PhD
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
Dmitry Osin, PhD
TAETokamak Energy
Marco Daniel Acciarri, PhD
University of MichiganHelion Energy
Elsa Durcan
Yale University
Lennox Cao
Cornell UniversityApple
Ali Bouzari
The University of British Columbia
Sunny Taylor
Argonne National LabFermilab
James Rice, PhD
OpenStar
Victor Lowings
University of Cambridge
Jake Harter
University of Bath
William Roberts
Princeton UniversityUniversity of Oxford
Engineering
Jason Wexler, PhD
GradientPrinceton University
Alden Ahlholm
Charm IndustrialNorthrop Grumman
Ian Shi
SpaceXTesla
Justin Lantaigne
HelionUniversity of Toronto
Jaimie Lin
Washington University in St. Louis
George Hannam
The University of British Columbia
Adrian Burns
Charm Industrial
Jackson Frazer
The University of British Columbia
Mason Wheeler
Imperial College London
Luca Cappellano
The University of British Columbia
Gregory Sharma
CornellAutodesk
Advisors
Per F. Peterson, PhD
Kairos PowerUniversity of California Berkeley
Ahmed Diallo, PhD
Princeton Plasma Physics LaboratoryARPA-E
Dan Brunner, PhD
MITCommonwealth Fusion Systems
Malcolm Handley
ARPA-EStrong Atomics