About

Greetings! I am Mukesh Kumar Singh, originally hailing from Uttar Pradesh, a northern state of India. My academic journey has taken me from earning an undegraduate degree with physics major at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi to pursuing masters’ degree in physics at Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM).

I earned my PhD in gravitational wave (GW) astronomy in the Astrophysical Relativity Group at International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS-TIFR) Bengaluru, India. As part of my research activities under the guidance of Prof. Parameswaran Ajith, I studied the GW signals emitted by the mergers of a pair of compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars to infer their astrophysical properties.

I am currently an STFC Postdoctoral fellow in Gravity Exploration Institute at Cardiff University. My research focuses on developing rapid and efficient parameter estimation routines for GW signals from compact binary mergers as well as their population properties which enable us to constrain their formation channels. I am also a member of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration. More information about my research can be found here.

Beyond the confines of academia, I love playing badminton rather profusely. I am always up for moutain hikes.

Thank you for visiting my webpage! If you share the enthusiasm for the wonders of cosmos or simply want to connect, please do get in touch.