Lucas Pabarcius

Co-founder / CEO of Atum Works Recovering Caltech physicist, Brains in Silicon Lab (Stanford) dropout. Previously built the world’s fastest‑burning hybrid rocket engine before serving as a civil servant at NASA in optics, electric propulsion, and attitude‑control systems, where I collaborated with Nobel laureates and NASA leadership on missions including Starshot, Starshade, and Europa Clipper—and won NASA’s “Most Visionary Concept” Award.