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]
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]