Prof Xavier Garbet earned his PhD in 1988 from Aix-Marseille University, France. Prof Garbet’s research spans a broad range of topics in magnetic fusion energy. His doctoral research focused on drift wave turbulence in tokamak plasmas. The same year, he joined the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) as a researcher. Prof Garbet was a visiting scientist at General Atomics from 1994 to 1995 and served as Task Force Leader at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility between 2001 and 2004. He is currently a Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Research Director at CEA.