This colloquium will consist of two shorter presentations. The first speaker is Alex Borovskis. Alex is a global cleantech leader with deep expertise in fusion technologies. As the co-founder of HELIXOS (https://www.helixos.co), he delivers commercialisation, strategic communications, and technical advisory services to global research organisations, governments, technology developers, investors, and end-users. Alex leads all aspects of the organisation’s business development, project execution, and operations. The second speaker is Dr Christian Flüchter. Christian is a consultant and project manager at VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH (https://www.vditz.de). He works for various ministries on projects involving the funding of applied research in technologies such as OLEDs, photovoltaics, photonics, quantum technologies and, for the last three years, nuclear fusion. Christian received his PhD in Experimental Physics from the TU Dortmund in 2008 with a dissertation on h-dielectrics for the semiconductor industry, which was carried out at the DELTA synchrotron laboratory of the TU Dortmund and abroad at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory LNLS in Campinas near Sao Paulo.
