Michl Binderbauer

Michl Binderbauer is an Austrian-American physicist, and businessman. He is the CEO of TAE Technologies. He holds 40 issued and pending U.S. patents plus a number of international technology patents. Binderbauer has published papers on plasma, physics, and fusion.

Career
Binderbauer joined TAE when it was founded in 1998 as CTO, a position he held for 17 years. In May 2017, he became president of TAE, a position he held for 18 months before being appointed CEO in 2018.

In his role as the architect of the firm's research and development program; Binderbauer helped lead the initiative to collaborate with Google in utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technology for fusion research.

Binderbauer serves on the Board of Directors of both TAE Technologies and TAE Life Sciences.

Education
Binderbauer received a Bachelor of Science degree in Plasma Physics and a Master of Science degree in Physics from University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from UC Irvine in 1996. Binderbauer is a recipient of UC Irvine’s prestigious Lauds & Laurels Award and was, in 2018, one of the inaugural inductees into UC Irvine’s School of Physical Sciences Hall of Fame. He sits on the Board of UCI Beall Applied Innovation.