About

Lou is an independent consultant to the MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center. He has experience in commercial accelerator product development, and was COO of ProTom International (a proton therapy system for cancer treatment), where he led the commissioning and first cancer therapy with a 330 MeV synchrotron at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

Lou is a nuclear fusion scientist by background. His professional specialty is high-energy radiation. He got connected to PSFC via Zach Hartwig and is working on the Cyclotron proton source project.

How we met

Introduced by Dennis Whyte.

Selected conversations