J. P. Freidberg

Jeffrey P. Freidberg is the former head of the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also formerly served as the Director of MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center. He is currently a Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering (Emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a senior researcher at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering).