Carl Dietrich

Carl Dietrich Terrafugia’s CEO/CTO, Co-Founder, received his BS, MS and Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he won all four design competitions in which he competed as a young engineer. In the year 2000 Carl was recognized by the Aero/Astro Department at MIT as one of sixteen exceptional graduates under the age of 35. Carl founded Terrafugia in 2006 shortly after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Innovation. Carl has also been named as one of the Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40". He has been a private pilot since the age of seventeen.

Entrepreneurship, Aerospace engineering and Fusion Energy

Life is a race against time. Each generation should do more useful work (and consume more energy) than the previous one if humanity is destined for long-term survival. Be an advocate for innovation, energy efficiency, and energy independence from fossil fuels, but be careful not to make decisions that result in less useful work per unit time. You can't build a path to the future by doing less today.

Aviation, Plasma & Fusion Science

My wife, Anna Dietrich, is an invited speaker, and I hope to be able to contribute something as well.

Plasma physics