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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