Brad Nelson has over 40 years of experience as a lead engineer and engineering manager for projects involving the design, analysis and integration of experimental equipment, systems, and facilities. Before joining Type One Energy as Vice President of Engineering, he worked as Chief Engineer for the US ITER Project, a multibillion-dollar international project to construct and operate the first full-scale fusion reactor.

Nelson’s experience includes mechanical design, analysis, and integration of complex experimental systems for fusion energy research, supervision of associated engineering groups, and coordination of mechanical design, analysis, R&D, fabrication, installation and startup of experimental devices and facilities. Three of those facilities were stellarators, including the Advanced Toroidal Facility and Quasi-Poloidal Stellarator Experiment at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the National Compact Stellarator Experiment at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri.