Areas of Interest

• Creep deformation mechanisms
• High-resolution strain mapping
• Electron microscopy
• X-Ray diffraction
• Dislocation characterization
• Grain-boundary sliding
• Synchrotron topography
• Rock-deformation

Education

• Ph.D. (Materials Engineering) Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, 2021
• M.E. (Materials Engineering) Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, 2015
• B.Tech. (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering) NITK Surathkal, 2012

Teaching

• MML 302: Iron Making and Steelmaking
• MML 205: Principles of Extractive Metallurgy
• MMP 301: Computational Materials Science and Engineering Lab
• MML 254: Mechanical Behavior of Materials
• MML 557: Deformation Behavior of Materials

Professional Experiences

• Assistant Professor (Feb 2025 - Present)
  Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Bhilai
• Adolf Martens Research Fellow (Aug 2023 – Feb 2025)
  Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany
• Postdoctoral Research Associate (Jan 2022 - Jul 2023)
  Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK
• Visiting Researcher (Jan 2022 - Jul 2023)
  Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK
• Postdoctoral Researcher (May 2021 - Jan 2022)
  Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
• Visiting Researcher (Jan 2020)
  INDUS 2 Beamline, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, India
• Visiting Research Scholar (Jan 2019 - Jul 2019)
  Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US
• Visiting Researcher (Feb 2019 - May 2019)
  1-BM Beamline, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, IL, US

Awards and Honours

• 2023 Adolf Martens Fellowship, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin
• 2022 Postdoctoral Research Associate of the Year Award, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester
• 2021 Best metallography image in advanced techniques (Synchrotron imaging) at Indian Institute of Metals 75th Annual Technical Meet, National Metallurgists Day (NMD)
• 2020 Acta Student Award for the best full-length research manuscript
• 2020 Swarna Jayanti Endowment Fund (SJEF) by the Indian Institute of Metals, travel assistance for international conference
• 2019 Travel grant from the Office of International Relations, IISc for a short-term visit to the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US
• 2019 Choong Hoon Cho Chair fund for visit to USC
• 2013-2020 Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India scholarship
• 2019 Best Oral Presentation Award at 32nd Annual Students’ Symposium, Dept. of Materials Engineering, IISc
• 2017 Best Optical Micrograph Award at 30th Annual Students’ Symposium, Dept. of Materials Engineering, IISc
• 2007 State rank 17th rank in the Regional Mathematics Olympiad
• 2006 National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholar, India

Selected List of Publications

• S. P. Singh, P. Loewe, Sina Schriever, Juergen Olbricht, Birgit Rehmer, Gert Nolze, Birgit Skrotzki,“High Throughput Creep Evaluation of IN738LC in Bending Using Digital Image Correlation at 850℃”, Materials Science and Engineering: A 950, 149479 (2025) [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2025.149479]
• S. P. Singh, V. Jayaram, D. Srinivasan and P. Kumar, “High Throughput Determination of Creep Behaviour of Additively Manufactured AlSi10Mg Alloy”, Additive Manufacturing 58, 103049 (2022) [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.103049]
• S. P. Singh, A. Rijal, T. Straub, J-K. Han, T. Kennerknecht, C. Eberl, M. Kawasaki and P. Kumar, “Effect of High-Pressure Torsion on High Cycle Fatigue of Commercially Pure Cu: Some Insights from Formation of Surface Micro-cracks”, Materials Characterization 190, 112059 (2022) [ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2022.112059]
• S. P. Singh, P. Kumar and M. E. Kassner, “Frustration of the Dislocation Density in NaCl and Its Implication on “Harper-Dorn” Creep”, Materials Science and Engineering: A 799, 140360 (2021) [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2020.140360]
• S. P. Singh, P. Kumar and M. E. Kassner, The Low-Stress and High-Temperature Creep in LiF Single Crystals: An Explanation for the So-called Harper-Dorn Creep, Materialia 13, 100864 (2020) [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2020.100864], Acta Materialia Student Award for the best manuscript.
• S. P. Singh, X-R. Huang, P. Kumar and M. E. Kassner, “Assessment of the dislocation density using X-ray topography in Al single crystals annealed for long times near the melting temperature”, Materials Today Communications 21, 100613 (2019) [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2019.100613]
• S. P. Singh, D. Sonawane and P. Kumar, “Creep of Cu-Bi alloys with high Bi content near and above melting temperature of Bi”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions: A 50 (6), 2690-2701 (2019) [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-019-05206-z]
• A. Rijal, S. P. Singh, J-K. Han, M. Kawasaki and P. Kumar, “Effect of high‐pressure torsion on hardness and electrical resistivity of commercially pure Cu”, Advanced Engineering Materials 22 (1), 1900547 (2019) [https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.201900547]
• A. Rijal, S. P. Singh, J-K. Han, M. Kawasaki and P. Kumar, “Effect of HPT processing followed by long term natural ageing on mechanical and electrical properties of commercially pure Cu”, Letters on Materials 9 (4s), 561-565 (2019) [https://doi.org/10.22226/2410-3535-2019-4-561-565]
• S. P. Singh, B.K.D. Barman and P. Kumar, “Cu-Bi alloys with high volume fraction of Bi: A material potentially suitable for thermal surge protection and energy storage”, Materials Science and Engineering: A 677, 140-152 (2016) [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2016.09.041]
• B. K. D. Barman, S. P. Singh and P. Kumar, “Processing and mechanical behaviour of Cu-Bi alloys with high volume fraction of Bi: Suitability for high temperature soldering application”, Materials Science and Engineering: A 666, 339-349 (2016) [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2016.04.068]