Yashwant Singh

Biography

Yashwant Singh earned his BSc and MSc degrees from Gorakhpur University (now DDU University), after which he joined Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Jadavpur, Kolkata where he worked on transport phenomena in gaseous state under the supervision of BN Srivastava and obtained DPhil from Calcutta University (1969). Thereafter, he joined the Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) as Lecturer (1970) and became Reader (1976). He then worked at IBM Research Laboratory, California (1976-78) on interfacial phenomena. From 1982 to 1984, Singh was at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign where he worked with David Chandler and Peter Wolynes on problems of electron localization in a liquid like medium and on the glass transition. He was appointed Professor in 1985 and served as Head of Department of Physics (2002 -05), Coordinator, Centre for Advanced Studies (2005-06), and Professor Emeritus after his superannuation in 2006, all at BHU.

Research Interest

Condensed Matter Theory, Theoretical Biology