Dr. Pushpendra P. Singh

Biography

Dr. Singh has earned PhD in Experimental Nuclear Physics from A. M. University, Aligarh in collaboraton with the Inter-University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi in 2009. His doctoral thesis has been recognized by the Indian Physics Association (IPA) and conferred "Prof. C. V. K. Baba Award 2008" on him during the DAE-BRNS Symposium. In July 2009, he moved to the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (LNL), Italy on an international INFN-Fellowship after a short postdoctoral stay at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. During his stay at LNL from July 2009 to June 2011, Dr. Singh has worked on fusion at extreme sub-barrier energies and (multi)-nucleon transfer reactions using Electrostatic separator and PRISMA spectrometer. He was working as a visiting Scientist at GSI - Helmholtz Centre for Heavy-Ion Research GmbH in Germany before joining IIT Ropar. Dr. Singh has been the spokesperson of a variety of collaborative experiments at various national and international accelerator facilities. Some of his scientific contributions include: "the understanding of reaction dependent entry state population in low energy nuclear reactions", "Reconciliation of Famous Mass-asymmetry Systematics", "Alpha-Q-value systematics" and very "First Observation of Extreme Sub-barrier Fusion Hindrance for positive Q-value systems". He is an active member of NuStAR collaboration for the upcoming international Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) at Darmstadt in Germany.

Research Interest

Accelerator based Nuclear Reactions, Astrophysics and Spectroscopy study: - Fusion (and/or Incomplete Fusion)-Fission reactions - Low energy Incomplete fusion (i.e., Elab = 3-7 MeV/nucleon) - Fusion at extreme sub-barrier energies - Few (multi)-nucleon transfer reactions from well below to above barrier energies. - Nuclear spectroscopy using Coulomb excitations, (multi)-nucleon transfer and fusion-evaporations reactions