About

Himanshu Singh, PhD

Himanshu Singh, PhD

Assistant Professor

(Ramalingaswami Fellow and Ramanujan Awardee)

Dr Singh was born in Prayagraj and studied in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. He completed his engineering degree in Industrial Biotechnology from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu, India, in 2010. After getting exposed to some interdisciplinary research, he pursued his PhD at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, until 2016. After a few months of his stay at TIFR Mumbai and TIFR Hyderabad as a visiting fellow, he joined the group of Prof. Rasmus Linser at Ludwig Maximilians University, Department of Chemistry Pharmacy, in Munich, Germany, in July 2016. During this period, research was expanded by elucidating protein structure and dynamics using solution- and solid-state NMR methods. From 2018 to 2022, he was a part of Prof Linser's group at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, where the group worked on how protein dynamics control biological function using the solution, solid-state NMR methods and computational tools.

BTech: Industrial Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu, India.

PhD: Chemistry, Department of Chemical Sciences, TIFR Mumbai, Navi Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai, India.

10/2022–05/2024: The Ramalingaswami Fellow, Assistant Professor, DBT, GOI, Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Berhampur, Odisha, India.

11/2018–2022: Postdoctoral Research Associate, laboratory of Prof. Dr Rasmus Linser, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany.

07/2016–10/2018: Postdoctoral Research Associate, laboratory of Prof. Dr Rasmus Linser, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU), Munich, Germany.

02/2016–04/2016: Visiting Fellow, Department of Chemical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and Hyderabad, India.

03/2015-06/2015: Visiting Scientist, Institute Pasteur-Paris, France.

10/2013-11/2013: Visiting Scientist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

05/2012-06/2012: Visiting Scientist, University of Florence, Italy.

Education:

Professional experiences:

SMVDU, Katra, Jammu

TIFR, Mumbai

LMU, Munich

TU, Dortmund

Awards/Professional recognitions:

ISMAR/JMR Young Scientist Award by International Society of Magnetic Resonance, Brisbane, Australia,
August 2023.
The Ramanujan Fellowship award Feb 2023, Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, GoI.
Got a permanent full-time position as a Research Scientist in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry 09/2022, the University of Arizona (the World ranking 93), Tuscon, United States (declined the offer).
The Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship 2022 to 2027 by the DBT, Government of India.
Stanford fellowship by School of Medicine, Stanford University, 07/2022, USA.
Postdoctoral research funding from the Resolve Excellence Cluster, Ruhr University, Bochum, 12/2019-present.
Centre for Nano Science (Cens) award 2018, Munich, Germany.
In 2017 and 2018, organized by Cambridge Isotope Laboratory (CIL) Inc., US, during Experimental Nuclear Resonance Conference (ENC), Consecutive first prize winners of' NMR is an art' worldwide open competition.
Shortlisted for the interview of DBT Welcome-Trust, Early Career Fellowship 2016, India Alliance.
The best poster award in the annual meeting of the Department of Chemical Sciences, TIFR-Mumbai, 11/2015.
Awarded by The Raman Charpak Fellowship 2014 by Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research, DST, New Delhi-India. Hosted at Institute Pasteur, Paris.
Awarded by The Extra-European Best NMR Student Award 2013 by BIONMR-European Union Networks. Hosted at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
DST travel award 2014 to attend ICMRBS-2014 conference in Texas, US, during 08/2014.
DBT travel award to attend the ICMRBS-2012 conference in Lyon, France, on 08/2012.
Graduate PhD research fellowship award by the Department of Atomic Energy
(DAE), Govt. of India, from 2010 to 2016.
Qualified TIFR nationwide entrance examination, 2010.
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test (GATE-2010) in the subject of Biotechnology.
First prize in the district-level science competition, 2004.
District topper in the 12th state board exam conducted by Uttar Pradesh Board, 2004

Invited talks:

(1) 07/12/2022, lecture on Isotopic labelling of proteins, TU Dortmund, Germany

(2) 19/07/2022, invited talk at the Bio-NMR-Network-NRW (bio-N3MR) meeting, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.

(3) 12/07/2022-18/07/2022, invited talk at the "Frontiers of Biophysics and Structural Biology" meeting, Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily (EMFCSC), Italy.

(4) 29/09/2020, invited virtual talk at Julich Research Center, Julich, Germany: "NMR insights into the conformational dynamics of human Carbonic anhydrase II".

(5) 19/11/2019, invited talk at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, RESOLV workshop (Invited talk): "Water mediated ligand binding in proteins".

(6) 19/10/2019, invited talk at the School of Biotechnology, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, Jammu, India: "Chemistry of Biomolecules"

(7) 24/04/2019, Max Plank Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany (Laboratory visit and talk): "Fast microsecond timescale dynamics of the water network in the active site of an enzyme". Prof Dr. Christian Griesinger organized talk.

(8) 09/062015, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (Laboratory visit and talk): "Structure and Dynamics of a putative UV inducible protein (UVI31+) from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that exhibits DNA endonuclease activity "in RMN des biomolécules Institut Pasteur, Paris.

(9) 19-24/08/2014, Texas, USA (Conference, invited talk): "Acetate and bicarbonate metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: 13C NMR study" during ICMRBS-2014.

(10) 11-21/06/2012, Erice, Sicily, Italy (Workshop, invited talk): Participated at the "11th Course: Frontiers of Biophysics and Structural Biology", Erice Summer School held at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture organised by Stanford University, USA.

(11) 19-24/08/2012, Lyon, France (Conference, invited talk): Attended the XXVth International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems (ICMRBS-12) to be held at the "Cité Internationale" conference center.

(12) 08/2011, Mumbai, India (Workshop, invited talk): Invited and presented a lecture on "Science of Color" in Science Quest -2011 by Rotary Club of Dombivli-Mumbai, India.