Fisch's research also involve inertial fusion,[5][6] as well as methods to generate intensive laser fields to accelerate particles,[7] such as the ones used in plasma thrusters.
[8][9] He is also known to have worked on the hydrodynamics of charged liquids,[10] petroleum refinement,[11] and pattern recognition.
[14] He was then elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987,[15] and was subsequently awarded the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research in 1992 for fundamental theoretical work on non-inductive power generation in toroidally enclosed plasmas.
[17] In 2005, he received the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics for "theoretical development of efficient radio frequency (RF)-driven current in plasmas and for greatly expanding our ability to understand, to analyze, and to utilize wave–plasma interactions.
"[18] In 2015, he was awarded the Hannes Alfvén Prize from the European Physical Society for "his contributions to the understanding of plasma wave–particle interactions and their applications to efficiently driving currents with radio-frequency waves.