Founder Profile: Simon Woodruff - CEO

Simon is a globally recognised expert in nuclear fusion with a PhD in Plasma Physics from the University of Manchester and over 25 years of industry experience. As CEO of nTtau Digital Ltd, he leads our multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers dedicated to developing AI-enabled tools that dramatically shorten fusion power-plant design cycles.

Recognising that traditional design loops were prohibitively long, Simon championed the use of multi-objective optimisation to explore trade-offs between performance, cost and engineering constraints. Under his leadership, nTtau’s flagship research collaboration with the University of Manchester, “Design and Build of Fusion Plants in the Industrial Metaverse”, delivered automated simulation workflows capable of running hundreds of parallel design scenarios in a fraction of the usual time.

Simon’s broader mission is to accelerate the commercialization of fusion energy as a clean, abundant power source. He drives nTtau to partner with national labs, component suppliers and utilities, ensuring that its AI tools integrate seamlessly with existing physics codes and engineering databases.

In addition to his role at nTtau, Simon also serves as President of the Fusion Igniter, a New Mexico - based incubator that clones best practices across startups developing enabling fusion technologies.

Simon is committed to seeing nTtau Digital’s solutions become an industry standard - speeding up design processes, reducing development costs and bringing commercial fusion power within reach.