Mahavir Singh is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. He received his B.Tech. degree from Kurukshetra University, his M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His research focuses on the mechanical behavior of materials under extreme conditions, including high-temperature, high-strain-rate, laser-induced shock, and hypervelocity impact environments. His work involves the design and development of environmentally controlled in situ experimental platforms and the application of advanced optical diagnostics, including terahertz spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, digital image correlation, photon Doppler velocimetry, thermography, and microstructural analysis.