John Canik, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer
A Type One Energy co-founder, Dr. John Canik serves as the company’s Chief Science and Engineering Officer. With over twenty years of high-impact fusion energy research and technical leadership of extensive science and engineering teams, Dr. Canik’s expertise is substantial.
Before his tenure at Type One, he dedicated sixteen years to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, initially joining as a Eugene P. Wigner Fellow. His roles at ORNL included Group Leader for both the Theory and Modeling Group and the Experimental Plasma Physics Group, as well as Interim Director of the Fusion Energy Division. In these capacities, he managed progressively significant portions of ORNL’s fusion program and served as the main liaison with the Department of Energy’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences.
He has coauthored over 140 fusion technical papers, including a seminal paper on stellarators.
Dr. Canik holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, along with a B.A. in Physics and Computer Science from New York University.