Robin Tuluie

Robin Tuluie co-founded PhysicsX in 2019 and serves as its founder and chairman, having stepped back from the co-CEO role when Jacomo Corbo joined in February 2023. The London company closed a $300m Series C in June 2026 at a $2.4bn valuation, led by Temasek, more than doubling from its prior round. PhysicsX replaces multi-day engineering simulation runs with AI inference in under a second, a capability Tuluie built a career proving was physically possible before turning it into a commercial product.

Tuluie holds a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Texas at Austin, where he simulated black hole collisions under Richard Matzner, and completed postdoctoral research at Pennsylvania State University's Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos. He moved to Formula 1 as Head of R&D at Renault F1, where he developed the tuned mass damper that removed 0.3 seconds per lap and helped Fernando Alonso win the 2005 and 2006 world championships. He then became Chief Scientist at Mercedes F1, building what he describes as the first fully simulated F1 car from scratch and developing the FRIC suspension system; Mercedes won eight consecutive constructors' championships during his tenure.

The PhysicsX thesis is a direct extension of that career: if high-dimensional physical systems can be accurately simulated, AI can learn the mapping and collapse computation time by orders of magnitude. The company now counts aerospace, automotive, semiconductor and energy firms as customers, running models trained on tens of thousands of CFD and FEA simulations.