Name David Singh | ||
Books Planewaves, Pseudopotentials, and the LAPW Method | ||
David Joseph Singh (born 1958) is a theoretical physicist who is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He was previously a Corporate Fellow at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL.
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Life, education and career
David Joseph Singh was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA on June 23, 1958 and attended high school at Ashbury College in Ottawa, Canada. 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 from 1988 to 2004; one of the publications 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. In 2015 he moved to the University of Missouri. David Singh is a co-author of the book, “Planewaves, Pseudopotentials and the LAPW Method” as well as approximately 500 publications in scientific journals. His general area of research is in condensed matter physics, particularly on electronic structure methods, Ferroelectrics, Thermoelectrics and iron-based superconductor. He has made significant contributions in the application of Density functional theory especially to these new superconductors. Singh became a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997. He has been an editorial board member of the New Journal of Physics and Scientific Reports.
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.
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 in Web of Science. According to Google Scholar, his most cited article has 14,041 citations as of April 2014. He was named a Corporate Fellow at ORNL, is an Alan Berman award recipient, winner of the Sigma Xi Pure Science Award, the E.O. Hulburt Award and the Gordon Battelle Prize.