Fiat Lux

Fiat Lux, LLC is a private scientific research and consulting company specializing in computational plasma physics for fusion energy applications. Headquartered in Lafayette, United States, the firm provides computational and scientific research and consulting services in plasma physics, partnering on government-funded open-science research and commercial projects that build the basis of a fusion energy future. Its mission is to accelerate the development of fusion energy by providing these services. The company is led by founder Valerie A. Izzo, PhD, and co-founder Jacob R. King, PhD, alongside principal scientist Carl Sovinec, PhD, and senior scientists Eric Howell, PhD, and Eric Held, PhD. Affiliates include research scholar Jesús José Domínguez-Palacios Durán, PhD. Fiat Lux emphasizes outstanding science, reproducibility, ethical conduct, inclusivity, and transparency, embedding these values in its codes and algorithms through verification and validation, and in its software with modern unit and regression testing. The firm is known for its expertise in the NIMROD extended MHD code, with team members having contributed to its development, including resistive walls, refined initial conditions, multiple atomic species, and a time-split plasma-neutral algorithm. Current work includes modernizing code for open-source use on GPU-accelerated supercomputers. Fiat Lux collaborates with national laboratories, universities, and industry partners on fusion energy research.

Fiat Lux, LLC was founded as a private scientific research and consulting company focused on computational plasma physics for fusion energy applications. The company is headquartered in Lafayette, United States. Its founder is Valerie A. Izzo, PhD, and co-founder is Jacob R. King, PhD. The firm's mission is to accelerate the development of fusion energy by providing computational and scientific research and consulting in plasma physics, partnering on government-funded open-science research and commercial projects. The team includes principal scientist Carl Sovinec, PhD, and senior scientists Eric Howell, PhD, and Eric Held, PhD, who joined as a partner in July 2025 after a distinguished career at Utah State University. Affiliates include research scholar Jesús José Domínguez-Palacios Durán, PhD. Fiat Lux is known for its expertise in the NIMROD extended MHD code, with team members having contributed to its development, including resistive walls, refined initial conditions, multiple atomic species, and a time-split plasma-neutral algorithm. Current work includes modernizing code for open-source use on GPU-accelerated supercomputers. The company emphasizes outstanding science, reproducibility, ethical conduct, inclusivity, and transparency, embedding these values in its codes and algorithms through verification and validation, and in its software with modern unit and regression testing.

• Eric Held joined Fiat Lux as a partner.

A specialized scientific consultancy providing computational plasma physics expertise to accelerate fusion energy development.

• Computational plasma physics research

  Research and consulting services in plasma physics for fusion energy applications.

• Plasma simulation software development

  Development and modernization of plasma simulation codes, including NIMROD, for high-performance computing.

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