Jonah Messinger is a Winton Scholar and doctoral candidate at the Cavendish Laboratory of Physics at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Research Affiliate at MIT, where he works in the low-energy nuclear reactions group on quantum coherent nuclear science and participates in the U.S.

Department of Energy ARPA-E low-energy nuclear reaction research program. His research focuses on modifying nuclear reaction rates and products in table-top configurations for a novel approach to fusion.