Experience

Assistant Professor
Department of Astronomy, Astrophysics and Space Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
July 2023 - Present

YCAA Prize Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Yale University, New Haven, USA
October 2021 - June 2023

Postdoctoral Fellow
Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, INAF - Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, Italy
April 2018 - October 2021

Postdoctoral Fellow
IUCAA - Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India
September 2017 - April 2018

Education

Ph.D., 2012-2017
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Biman B. Nath
Research topic: A study of multiple probes of the circumgalactic medium

M. Sc. Physics, 2010-2012
Delhi University

B. Sc., 2007-2010
University of Rajasthan

Scholarships and Grants

Balzan grant: From the Centre for Cosmological Studies to carry out research at Dept of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, October 2017

Best poster prize: Suppression of galactic outflows by cosmological infall/circumgalactic medium, 34th Astronomical society of India meeting, 2016.

Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) Scholarship, 2007-2012.

National Scholarship for Physics (2011-2012).

Hansraj Merit Scholarship (2011).


List of Publications

  1. A multi-simulation study of relativistic SZ temperature scalings in galaxy clusters and groups
    Lee, E., Anbajagane, D., Singh, P., Chluba, J., Nagai, D., Kay, S. T., Cui, W., Dolag, K., Yepes, G. 2022, MNRAS, 517, 5303

  2. Galactic Gaseous Halos: Mini-Clusters Disrupted by Feedback
    Singh, P., Nagai, D., Oppenheimer, B. D., Lau E, Gluck, N., Medlock, I. 2022, Perspectives, Galactic Atmospheres

  3. A multi-wavelength, multi-model exploration of how feedback disrupts gaseous atmospheres
    Oppenheimer, B. D., Contreras, A. B., Gluck, N., Jones, J. D., Medlock, I., Villaescusa-Navarro, F., Nagai D., Lau E., Singh, P. 2022, Perspectives, Galactic Atmospheres

  4. The Evolution of AGN Activity in Brightest Cluster Galaxies
    Somboonpanyakul et al. 2021, DES & SPT Collaborations, AJ, 163, 146

  5. Exploring the contamination of the DES-Y1 cluster sample with SPT-SZ selected clusters
    Grandis et al. 2021, DES & SPT Collaborations, MNRAS, 504, 1253

  6. Cosmological Constraints from DES Y1 Cluster Abundances and SPT Multi- wavelength data
    Costanzi et al. 2021, DES & SPT Collaborations, Phys. Rev. D, 103, 043522

  7. Constraints on precipitation limited hot halos from massive galaxies to galaxy clusters
    Singh, P., Voit, G. M., Nath, B. B. 2021, MNRAS, 501, 2467

  8. Cosmology dependency of halo masses and concentrations in hydrodynamic simulations
    Ragagnin, A., Saro, A., Singh, P., Dolag, K. 2021, MNRAS, 500, 5056

  9. Cosmology dependence of galaxy cluster scaling relations
    Singh, P., Saro, A., Costanzi, M., Dolag, K. 2020, MNRAS, 494, 3728

  10. First measurement of the cross-correlation between CMB weak lensing and X-ray emission
    Hurier, G., Singh, P., Hernandez-Monteagudo, C. 2019, A&A, 625, L4

  11. X-ray and SZ constraints on the properties of hot CGM
    Singh, P., Majumdar, S., Nath, B. B., Silk, J. 2018, MNRAS, 478, 2909

  12. Constraining the X-ray AGN halo occupation distribution: implications for eROSITA
    Singh, P., Refregier, A., Majumdar, S., Nath, B. B. 2017, MNRAS, 466, 3961

  13. Suppression of galactic outflows by cosmological infall and circumgalactic medium
    Singh, P., Rana, S., Bagla, J. S., Nath, B. B. 2016, MNRAS, 459, 2

  14. Probing the circumgalactic baryons through cross-correlations
    Singh, P., Majumdar, S., Nath, B. B., Refregier, A., Silk, J. 2016, MNRAS, 456, 1495

  15. CMB distortion from circumgalactic gas
    Singh, P., Nath, B. B., Majumdar, S., Silk, J. 2015, MNRAS, 448, 2384