Zach Hynek is the co-founder and CEO of Morton Labs, a simulation and design platform purpose-built for fusion energy research and power-plant development. He is a master’s candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he studies techno-economics and financial structures for advanced energy systems. At Morton Labs, Zach and his team explore how high-fidelity computational science and emerging AI tools can accelerate fusion development to reduce cost, timelines, and uncertainty without compromising safety standards.