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Zachary (Zach) Hartwig is an Associate Professor in the Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he also holds a co-appointment at the MIT Plasma Science Fusion Center (PSFC). His work primarily revolves around large-scale applied superconductivity, magnet design for fusion devices, and plasma-material interactions. Zach's research is focused on the development of high-field superconducting magnet technologies for fusion energy and accelerated irradiation methods for fusion materials using ion beams. He is a co-founder of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), a private company dedicated to commercializing fusion energy. He completed his PhD at MIT NSE in 2013, where he developed a new generation of particle accelerator-based diagnostics to study plasma-material interactions in fusion devices. Prior to this, he earned a B.A. in Physics from Boston University in 2005.