Farhat Beg

Farhat Beg

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego

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. He is actively involved in the field of High-Energy-Density-Plasmas and Inertial Fusion Energy and he has published over 300 papers in refereed journals.  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 was the recipient of the Plasma Science and Applications Committee Award by the IEEE in 2021.

Articles by: Farhat Beg

A photo of an engineer working in the target chamber of the National Ignition Facility

Nuclear fusion could be the clean energy of the future — but these 'tough' challenges stand in the way

By George R. Tynan, Farhat Beg published

Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they'll still need to overcome engineering challenges to scale up fusion energy.