Senior Nuclear Theorist - Few-Body Physics (gn) @ Fusion Energy Venture, Munich

This is an Atlantic portfolio venture. About the Venture Snap Fusion develops a fundamentally new approach to controlled fusion energy. We are a small team of physicists and engineers. The work is early, the questions are real, and the standard is high. Our findings feed into research in fusion energy, scientific discovery, advanced simulation, AI for Physics and quantum technologies. Some problems are too important not to solve. Your mission Lead the nuclear theory behind a new approach to fusion energy. At Snap Fusion, we are pursuing a bold mission: developing a fundamentally new approach to controlled fusion energy. Parts of our roadmap rest on questions of low-energy nuclear physics. Some of these have clear answers in the literature; others turn out, on close reading, to be less settled than they first appear. Knowing which is which matters to us, because it shapes what we build and what we test. We are therefore establishing an in-house nuclear theory effort, and we are looking for a senior few-body theorist to lead it. Your job will be to decide which of our questions current theory can actually answer, to answer those at a standard that would hold up to expert review, and to say plainly where the uncertainties lie. This is an unusual setting for a theorist, in a good way: the questions are concrete, the team is small, and your conclusions will be acted on. What you will do You will work directly with the founders as theory lead. Your responsibilities may inclu