Prof. Jasbir Singh

Prof. J.B. Singh is a scientist of eminence with specialization in Experimental High Energy Particle Physics, Radiation Detector Technology, and Instrumentation. He has been part of international teams associated with the discovery of the Top Quark at Fermilab, USA (1995), CP-violation in the B-Bbar system with the Belle Experiment at KEK, Japan (2001), and the Higgs Particle at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (2012). 

He has actively participated in major international research programs at CERN (Switzerland), Fermilab (USA), and KEK (Japan). He is the author of more than 2500 research publications and has appeared in the Stanford University list of the world’s top 2% researchers every year since 2018. 

He previously served as Director of CIL/UCIM/RSIC/SAIF and Professor of Physics at Panjab University. He has also held visiting scientific positions at CERN, Fermilab, KEK, and several universities across Europe, the USA, Russia, and Japan. 

Before joining UPES, Prof. Singh taught at Panjab University, Chandigarh for over four decades. He served as Professor of Physics and Director of major scientific instrumentation centres including CIL, UCIM, RSIC, and SAIF. 

Internationally, he served as CERN Fellow Scientist (1984–85), Scientist at Fermilab, USA (1992–93), and Visiting Scientist at KEK, Japan. He also held multiple collaborative and visiting appointments at institutions in Italy, Switzerland, Russia, and the United States. 

Experimental High Energy Physics | Particle accelerators | Radiation detector technology | Neutrino physics | Collider experiments | Bubble chamber and fixed target experiments | CMS experiment at CERN | Belle experiment at KEK | DZero experiment at Fermilab | India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO). 

Prof. Singh has over 40 years of teaching experience in undergraduate, postgraduate, M.Phil., and doctoral programmes. He believes in building strong conceptual foundations while exposing students to frontier research and modern instrumentation. 

He has taught Physics, Electronics, Mechanics, Particle Physics, and Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics. He also initiated several new academic programmes and curricula, including a Post Graduate Diploma in Accelerator Physics and Technology, M.Sc. Instrumentation, and M.Tech. Microelectronics. 

Mechanics | Electricity and Magnetism | Particle Physics | Electronics | Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics | Particle Accelerator Techniques. 

Participation in the discovery of the Top Quark at Fermilab (1995), CP-violation in B-meson systems at KEK (2001, 2003), and the Higgs Particle at CERN (2012). 

Recipient of the Bharat Jyoti Award (2006). 

Included in the Stanford University list of the world’s top 2% researchers since 2018. 

He has also led and coordinated multiple major research projects funded by DST, DAE, and Indo-Japan collaborative programmes in areas such as CP-violation, CMS detector upgrades, neutrino observatory detector R&D, and new particle searches. 

Prof. Singh has supervised 18 Ph.D. scholars along with a large number of M.Phil. and M.Sc. dissertations. He has published over 2000 journal papers with an h-index above 140. 

He has served on numerous national and international committees, including the INDIA-CERN Research Program Task Force, CMS HCAL International Management Board, FAIR Indo-German Programme Monitoring Committee, DAE-DST Apex Coordination Committee for Mega Science Programmes, and multiple conference organizing committees in high-energy physics. 

His career reflects sustained leadership in global particle physics collaborations, detector development, and scientific capacity building in India. 

jasbir.singh@ddn.upes.ac.in