Mukesh Kumar Singh

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Grant Category:	Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellowships
Project Title:	Improving Gravitational-wave Early-warning of Compact Binary Mergers and Core Collapse Supernovae
Field of Study:	Physics
Home Institution:	International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Host Institution:	Pennsylvania State University , University Park, PA
Grant Start Month:	September 2023
Duration of Grant:	Six months

Brief Bio:

Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh is a Ph.D. research scholar at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bengaluru. His research interests span gravitational wave astronomy and astrophysics. In particular, he is interested in improving the gravitational wave early-warning of neutron star-black hole binary mergers. He is also interested in inferring the population properties of binary black hole mergers that could shed light on the understanding of stellar evolution, supernovae physics, and formation channels of compact binary systems.

Mr. Singh holds a bachelor’s in physics from Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, and a master’s in physics from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He is the recipient of INSPIRE Scholarship to pursue higher education in science from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has qualified various examinations such as Joint CSIR-UGC JRF-NET, JAM, JEST, and GATE. Apart from physics, he enjoys trekking and playing badminton. He is also keen on music and is learning to play violin. He loves to travel and meet new people and learn about their cultures while sharing his.

As a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research fellow, Mr. Singh is exploring the impact of subdominant modes of gravitational radiation on improving the GW early-warning of compact binary mergers. This will help astronomers point their telescopes to the merger location before the emission of any electromagnetic counterpart, potentially leading to multi-messenger observation.