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Nathaniel Fisch

Office: C-Site T162
Phone: (609) 243-2643
email: nfisch@pppl.gov
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     Professor Nathaniel Fisch is Associate Director for Academic Affairs at PPPL, and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and the Director of the Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University. His professional interests include: plasma physics with applications to nuclear fusion, astrophysics, plasma-based pulse compression, plasma thrusters, plasma processing, laser-based plasma accelerators, and atomic radiation in plasmas; complex liquids and continuum electro-hydrodynamics; petroleum refining; and statistical inference and pattern recognition. A Fellow of the American Physical Society and a former Guggenheim Fellow, Professor Fisch was the recipient of the EO Lawrence Award, the American Physical Society Maxwell Prize, the American Physical Society Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics, and the United States Department of Energy Bronze Medal for Outstanding Mentor. He served as Chair of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society. He serves now also as the Academic Director of the National Undergraduate Summer Fellowship Program in Plasma Physics and Fusion Engineering. Professor Fisch studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was an MIT National Scholar, earning his B.S. degree in 1972, his M.S. degree in 1975, and his Ph.D. degree in 1978.

   


   
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