Meet Postdoc Manpreet Singh

Meet Postdoc Manpreet Singh

Dr. Manpreet Singh joined LPL in March 2021 as a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Research Scientist Dr. Federico Fraschetti. Manpreet studies interplanetary and astrophysical collisionless shock waves and particle acceleration.

Manpreet is from Batala (Punjab, India). He obtained his B.Sc. (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics) in 2010 from Government College Gurdaspur (Punjab), and his M.Sc. (Applied Physics) in 2012 and Ph.D. with specialization in Space Plasma Physics in 2019 from the Department of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University (Amritsar, Punjab). His Ph.D. research was focused on the theoretical study of dispersive Alfvén waves in multi-species and dusty plasmas in space environments. In 2013, Manpreet earned a Bachelor of Education degree with specialization in pedagogy of science and mathematics.

In his free time Manpreet likes to play cricket, watch science documentaries and science fiction movies, gardening, and travel to new places.