Tamanjyot Singh

Hi! I am a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University working with Prof. Emanuele Berti. I graduated with a PhD in Physics from The University of Texas at Dallas, where I worked with Prof. Michael Kesden.

My primary research interests lie in understanding the observational imprints of the spin of black holes on various astrophysical phenomena. I focused on tidal disruption events by spinning supermassive black holes and precessional (and nutational) effects on gravitational wave signals from binary black holes in my graduate research.

Interested in collaborating or just chatting about black holes? Feel free to reach out! You can find my contact and research information below.

When I am not working, I enjoy playing basketball, reading, writing Punjabi poetry, and dancing (mostly bhangra!).

Published

1. "Distribution of orbital inclinations for tidal disruption events by Kerr black holes".

   Tamanjyot Singh and M. Kesden

   PRD (2024, February)

Submitted

1. "Distinguishing lensing and precessional modulation in binary black-hole inspiral waveforms".

   T. N. Nguyen-Vo, Tamanjyot Singh, B. McCallip, M. Kesden, and L. King

   Submitted to PRD (2026, September)

2. "Detecting regular precession using a new gravitational waveform model directly parameterized by both precession amplitude and frequency".

   Tamanjyot Singh, E. Stoikos, S. Ali, N. Steinle, M. Kesden, and L. King

   Submitted to PRD (2025, September)

Here are a few presentations from some of the talks I have given at conferences.

1. ICGC 2023, IIT Guwahati, India

   I attended this conference while visiting family in India. Here are the slides for the talk: "Inclination distributions in tidal disruption events by spinning supermassive black holes" (PowerPoint).

2. APS April Meeting 2024, Sacramento, CA

   This was my first APS April meeting presentation. Slides are attached here: "Gravitational wave signals from precessing binary black hole inspirals" (PowerPoint).

3. APS Global Physics Summit 2025, Anaheim, CA

   The slides from my second APS talk can be downloaded by clicking on the title of the talk: "Gravitational wave signals from precessing and nutating binary black holes" (PowerPoint).

4. APS Global Physics Summit 2026, Denver, CO

   Rounding out with the fourth project of my dissertation: Lensing vs. Precession in GW signals. I presented this work at the APS global physics summit on March 18, 2026. Here are the slides for the talk: "Can we distinguish lensing and precession effects in gravitational wave signals?" (PowerPoint).

More can be requested by contacting me directly.