mklilley

Matt Lilley is a physicist, technologist and educator. He’s been involved in the pursuit of nuclear fusion energy since 2005 as: a full-time academic at Imperial College London and the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, a self-funded independent researcher, a Project-Ida team member, and most recently as an Anthropocene Institute grant holder. Matt’s research has spanned both experimental and theoretical domains and is currently focussed on the acceleration of nuclear reactions via quantum coherent processes.

Matt’s research career has been interspersed with technology since 2013. Inspired by the idea of becoming a self-funded researcher, Matt founded Level 8 Limited, taught himself how to code and started building web-apps like Squidler. He’s continued to build all kinds of things since then: including productivity tools, automation bots and interactive physics simulations. Matt leverages his tech skills to advance his research, including exploring the potential of computational notebooks such as Observable and Jupyter to help disseminate ideas to wide audiences.

Matt’s got a drive to build but also a desire to share. He’s delivered 150+ workshops to business leaders on topics like blockchain, machine learning, quantum computing and GenAI and you can also find Matt sharing his knowledge about physics on YouTube @CasualPhysics.