First European Interstellar Symposium 2024

Gerald Jackson received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1987 and worked until 2000 as an accelerator physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Before leaving he designed the antiproton Recycler ring and served as its construction manager, marking the last major particle physics accelerator built in the United States. In private industry he developed commercial markets for antimatter, holding the patent on antiproton-based cancer therapy and authoring dozens of papers on antimatter-based space propulsion systems. Since 2020 he has broadened his propulsion work to nuclear fusion systems suitable for unmanned interstellar missions.