Mahi R. Singh (b. 1949) is a professor of physics at Western University researching nanoscience. He was awarded the Fulbright US-Canada Research Chair for 2021-2022.[1][2]
Early life
Singh was born in 1949 in Hamirpur, India.[3] He received his B.Sc. degree in T.D. College campus; and both M.Sc. (1970) and PhD (1976) degrees from Banaras Hindu University in condensed matter physics.[4]
Academic career
Singh was awarded Humbold Fellow in Stuttgart University from 1979 to 1981. Between 1981 and 1985 he was a Research Associate and Lecturer at McGill University. From 1982 to 1983 he worked in High Magnetic Field Lab, Université Paul Sabatier as a visiting scientist. He also worked as Research Associate at University of North Carolina.[4]
He joined the University of Western Ontario as associate professor in 1985. Currently he is professor in this university. He was also a visiting professor at Texas Center for Superconductivity from June till November in 1992. He also worked as a chief researcher at Superconductors Division of Hitachi, Tokyo between November 1992. During May and August in 2022, he became Fulbright US-Canada Research Chair in Vanderbilt University.[1]
His visiting positions include Texas Center for Superconductivity (1992), University of Oxford (1993-1994), and Dubna and Ioffe Institute Saint Petersburg (2019).[5]
Research
Research topics include:
- Nanomaterials and Nanocomposites
- Nanophotonics, Plasmonics, and Polaritonics
- Graphene and Carbon Nanostructures
- Metallic Nanostructures
- Second Harmonic Generation
- Photonic
- Metamaterials
- Biomaterials[6][7]
Selected honors and awards
- NIST Visiting Researcher, NIST USA, 2022[8]
- Fulbright US-Canada Research Chair, 2020-2021[3]
- External Expert for Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, 2020-2021
- Royal Society Visiting Scientist/Professor. 1993-1994
- Chief Researcher, Hitachi, Tokyo in 1992–1993
- Alexander von Humboldt Award, 1979[9][10]
References
- ^ a b "Fulbright Canada Alumni Database".
- ^ "RECENT CANADIAN FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS in 2021-2022".
- ^ a b "BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF SINGH". India News Paper:Amar Ujala(Allahabad Edition). Jan 16, 2022. p. 08.
- ^ a b "Mahi R. Singh biography".
- ^ "Mahi R. Singh Hilaris SRL".
- ^ "Research Activities - Mahi R. Singh - Western University (uwo.ca)".
- ^ "Mahi R. Singh - Google Scholar".
- ^ "National Institute of Standards and Technology (nist.gov)". NIST. 23 September 2009.
- ^ "Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung".
- ^ "Awards of Singh".
