Clifford E. Singer was an American professor emeritus and the director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois. He is known for contributions to nuclear, plasma, and radiological engineering. He conducted research in plasma physics, advanced space propulsion, and computational thermonuclear plasma simulation at the University of London, Princeton University, and the University of Illinois. Singer is an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship holder at the Max Planck Institutes in Germany. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Nuclear Society.
Early life and education
Singer also completed his undergraduate studies, receiving a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1966.
He earned his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1971.
Career
Singer served as the director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS).
From 1977 to 1986, Singer conducted research in plasma physics and advanced space propulsion at the Plasma Physics Lab, at Princeton University.
Singer was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellow at both Queen Mary College, London, from 1972 to 1974 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from November 1971 to August 1972.