Farhat Beg

Farhat Beg, the co-director of newly established Fusion Engineering Institute, received his Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1995. He joined UC San Diego in 2003, where currently, he is a Shao-Chi and Lily Lin Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Engineering Science at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is actively involved in the field of High-Energy-Density-Plasmas and Inertial Fusion Energy. He has published over 300 papers in refereed journals, including Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Photonics and Physical Review Letters, with total citations exceeding 10,000 with and H-index of 55, according to the Web of Science. He is the fellow of the American Physical Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been a winner of the Department of Junior Faculty Award (2005) and IEEE Early Career Award (2008). He was the recipient of the Plasma Science and Applications Committee (PSAC) Award by the IEEE in 2021 for his outstanding contributions on both laser- and Z-pinch-driven plasma physics including energetic particle production, ultra-high magnetic field generation and formation of well diagnosed high energy density plasmas. He was the founding Chair of the ZNetUS network which provides access to the several pulsed power facilities around the country to the users.