Our research project is powered by private funding
If you are interested in enhancing research that has the potential to make a huge difference on a global scale, please contact Päivi Törmä at Aalto University. Together we can find the best way for you to get involved.
Currently, our project is funded by:
Seven SuperC PIs participate in the Simons Collaboration on New Frontiers in Superconductivity
Private Individuals Sponsoring SuperC 2033
Kevin Wells, private donor (QG3D)
About Kevin Wells
Kevin Wells is executive director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. Previously, he led the networking teams in software engineering at Apple, Inc. Before joining Apple, Kevin held executive positions with Medtronic Diabetes and The Walt Disney Company. He is a committed environmental leader and serves as board chair of Environment Now, an activist foundation focused on protecting California’s natural environment. Kevin holds a BS in physics, an MS in electrical engineering, and an MBA from Stanford University. He currently serves on the Stanford Humanities and Sciences Council, and the Stanford Q-FARM advisory board.
Project Leader Prof. Päivi Törmä
“It is due to this spirit of believing in the good and investing in the future that our lives now are a bit better.” (P. Törmä)
Why I donate to SuperC
In this picture, I’m rowing a boat on the lake Osmanki in Northern Finland. My ancestors have lived by that lake for four hundred years according to written records, and probably longer. They had to struggle with famine, disease, high child-mortality and war. Yet they took into use new technologies, built better farming and housing infrastructure, promoted societal progress such as school for every child and, in general, were hard-working decent people. It is due to this spirit of believing in the good and investing in the future that our lives now are a bit better. I want to be a worthy link in such a chain. Therefore, I started the SuperC project: room temperature superconductivity would offer tremendous technological progress and help with the major struggle of our times, climate change. I have also decided to donate to SuperC one thousand Euros for every one million Euro funding that we get. In 2023, I was happy to make my first donation.
Päivi Törmä