Rajdeep Singh Rawat did his MSc (1987) and PhD (1994) in Physics, with specialization in experimental plasma physics from University of Delhi, India, and currently is a Professor in Physics and Head of Natural Sciences and Science Education Academic Group in National Institute of Education, NTU. Rajdeep has three key Research Areas of Expertise and Impact, listed below, that encompass interdisciplinary fields of plasma sources, pulsed power, plasma diagnostics, plasma applications and material science and technology.

After joining at NTU, he has participated in 50 research grants, including one NRF-CRP, two NRF, 6 MOE Tier 2, one HTX, 5 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and 5 Industrial grants, amounting more than 29 M$ in total funding since 2001 with 28 as principal investigator with 22 of them from external/industrial sources and has graduated 4 MSc and 17 PhD students and is currently supervising 3 PhD students. He has published over 290 Journal papers, one edited book, 5 proceedings/special issues, 7 book chapters and over 70 conference papers with >9960 citations and H-index of 52. He also holds two patents and other two have been submitted. He has delivered 32 Plenary/Keynotes and more than 60 invited talks at international conferences He has served as Chair of 47th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science 2020 and few other major conferences.

He is currently the President of Asian African Association for Plasma Training (which has 54 member institutions in 23 countries) since 2012 and President of International Physics Olympiad, the most prestigious international physics competition for high school students, since 2018. He has served as experiment trainer and Leader for Singapore’s Team for International Physics Olympiad from 2005 to 2018 which won twice World Rank 1, twice World Rank 2 and twice World Rank 3 and finishing among top 10 rest of the time; Overall students mentored/trained by him won 32 Gold, 19 Silver and 3 Bronze medals at IPhO competitions. He is Chair, and also serves on Board of Directors, of Division of Plasma Physics of Association of Asia Pacific Physical Society (AAPPS-DPP) with >3300 members. He is the council member of AAPPS since 2017 and sits on Executive Council of PSAC/NPSS/IEEE. He was the President of Institute of Physics Singapore for 2016-2020 period. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of Review of Modern Plasma Physics (Springer), Plasma (MDPI), Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics (Springer) and The Physics Educator (World Scientific). He has been listed in Top 2% List of Scientists of Stanford University for last few years.