David Joseph Singh

David Joseph Singh is a theoretical physicist who is a Corporate Fellow and the Group leader Advanced Materials Group, in the Materials Science and Technology Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL. Singh is well known in the areas of Condensed matter physics and Materials science. David is married to Nancy Tilghman Singh and they have five children.

Life, education and career

David Singh was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. He has a Summa cum Laude B.Sc. (1980) and a Ph.D. (1985) in Physics from the University of Ottawa in Canada. His doctoral research at Ottawa was under the supervision of Professor Yatendra Varshi. From 1985 -1988 he had a postdoctoral appointment at the College of William and Mary where he was supervised by Professor Henry Krakauer. In 1988, he moved to join the theory group supervised by Warren E. Pickett at the Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC. He continued to work on a range of materials problems at the Naval Research Laboratory form 1988 to 2004; one of the publications [1] discussed an interesting explanation of Colossal magnetoresistance. In 2004 Singh left Washington to join the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a US department of Energy facility, in Oak Ridge, TN. David Singh is a co-author of the book, “Planewaves, Pseudopotentials and the LAPW Method” as well as more than 460 publications in scientific journals, 30,000+ Citations, ISI h-index of 64. His general area of research is in condensed matter physics, particularly on electronic structure methods, Ferroelectrics, Thermoelectrics [2] and iron-based superconductor.[3] He has made significant contributions in the application of Density functional theory especially to these new superconductors.

Major professional contributions and recognitions

Along with his former colleague and a frequent collaborator Igor I. Mazin, David Singh has developed the sign-changing s-wave model for iron-based superconductors.[4]

The multinational media and information firm Thomson Reuters, has named David Singh a Highly Cited Researcher, one who is ranked in the top 1% of scientists in his/her field based on citations.

Selected honors and awards

Singh is recipient of the E.O. Hulburt Award (2003) and the Gordon Battelle Prize (2011). American Physical Society, Division of Computational Physics, Member Executive Committee, 2010-2013 American Physical Society, Member Publications Oversight Committee, 2009-2012 Editorial Board: New Journal of Physics, Phase Transitions, Functional materials Letters

References

  1. ↑ Warren E. Pickett et al, Phys. Rev. B.53,1146 (1996).
  2. ↑ O. Delaire et al, Nature Materials, 10,614 (2011).
  3. ↑ M.M. Quazilbash et al, Nature Physics.5,647 (2009).
  4. ↑ I.I. Mazin et al, Phys. Rev. Lett.101,057003 (2008).

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