Prof. Chandralekha Singh is a Distinguished Professor and Director at the Discipline-based Science Education Research Center, University of Pittsburgh. She obtained her B.S. and M.S. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India. She then obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California Santa Barbara. She was a postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before joining the Department of Physics of the University of Pittsburgh in 1995. She is the Founding Director of the Discipline-Based Science Education Research Center. She was the President of the American Association of Physics Teachers from 2021 to 2022 and was part of the U.S. delegation at the International Conference on Women in Physics in 2015. Her research is to identify sources of student difficulties in learning physics both at the introductory and advanced levels and to design, implement, and assess curricula/pedagogies that may significantly reduce these difficulties. The objective is to enable students at all levels to develop critical thinking skills and to become good problem solvers and independent learners. She is also investigating how to make physics learning environments equitable and inclusive.
