Xavier Garbet

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Xavier Garbet
Education Paris-Sorbonne University (B.S.)
Paris-Saclay University (M.S.)
Aix-Marseille University (Ph.D.)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Plasma physics
Institutions CEA
Nanyang Technological University
Thesis Turbulence et transport anormal dans les plasmas de Tokamak  (1988)
Website dr.ntu.edu.sg/cris/rp/rp02080

Xavier Garbet (b. 1961) [1] is an theoretical plasma physicist and a professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). [2] He is currently appointed as the Temasek Chair in Clean Energy, as his professorship was established by a $6 million endowment from Singapore's state investment firm, Temasek Holdings. This appointment aims to support a magnetic confinement fusion research and manpower training program at NTU for clean energy development in Singapore. [3]

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Early life and career

In 1982, Garbet received a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Paris-Sorbonne University. He then earned a Master's degree in plasma physics from Paris-Saclay University. Subsequently, he earned a PhD degree in theoretical and high-energy physics in 1988 and a Habilitation à diriger des recherches (French habilitation) in 2001 from Aix-Marseille University. [4]

Garbet was hired by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in 1988. [5] He was a visiting scientist at General Atomics from 1994 to 1995 and led a plasma transport modelling task force at the Joint European Torus from 2001 to 2004. [6] In 2008, he became a research director at CEA. In 2022, he joined NTU as a professor of theoretical and computational plasma physics and was appointed as the Temasek Chair in Clean Energy. [2]

Honours and awards

Garbet was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal by the French National Centre for Scientific Research for his work on plasma confinement fusion in 2010. [7] [8]

In 2019, he was awarded the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize by the Société Française de Physique. [6]

In 2022, Garbet was awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize for his theoretical contributions to the dynamics of magnetically confined fusion plasmas. [9]

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