Michl Binderbauer is Chief Executive Officer of TAE Technologies and co-inventor of many of the company’s technological advances in fusion energy, power management, and particle accelerators.

TAE was founded in 1998 to create a completely safe, sustainable, non-radioactive source of nuclear energy, capable of powering the planet for centuries. Over the last two decades, Michl has evolved TAE into a fusion industry leader and expanded the company’s technology portfolio to include power management solutions for electric mobility, grid storage and efficiency, and more.

While serving as TAE’s Chief Technology Officer, Michl spearheaded a partnership with Google to apply machine learning and AI technology to fusion research. In 2014, TAE and Google jointly developed the Optometrist Algorithm, which dramatically accelerated TAE’s technological advances by combining human and computer intelligence to exponentially improve the efficiency of TAE’s fusion energy development program.

From 2015 to 2017, drawing upon his previous experience in healthcare and infection control startups in both Europe and the United States, Michl guided the development of TAE’s first subsidiary, TAE Life Sciences. TAE Life Sciences is a medical startup that leverages TAE’s patented particle accelerator beam technology for a promising cancer treatment that selectively targets tumor cells while sparing healthy tissue.

Michl became CEO of TAE in 2018 and holds well over 100 U.S. and international technology patents. He has published many papers in the world’s leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, including Science, Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, and more. He has been featured in press coverage highlighting the potential and prowess of TAE’s approach to fusion, including a cover story in Time magazine, The New York Times, Financial Times, National Geographic, Science and PBS NewsHour. Michl is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the American Physical Society. He is a recipient of UC Irvine’s prestigious Lauds & Laurels Award, and was an inaugural inductee into the UCI School of Physical Sciences Hall of Fame. He also serves on the school’s Industry Advisory Board on the Dean’s Executive Cabinet.

Michl earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Irvine, under the guidance of fusion energy pioneer and TAE’s technology co-founder Dr. Norman Rostoker.