Manasvi Lingam, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor | Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences | Florida Tech

Melbourne, FL, UNITED STATES

Dr. Lingam's research interests are primarily within the transdisciplinary areas of astrobiology.

Spotlight

Lingam, Mirsayar, van Woesik Recognized as ‘Top Scholars’ by ScholarGPS

2025-01-25

Manasvi Lingam Bridges Gap Between Introductory and Graduate Astrobiology Education with New Textbook

2025-01-21

Experts in the Media: Florida Tech astrobiologist Manasvi Lingam in Astronomy magazine on the search for life 'out there'

2022-10-19

Areas of Expertise (4)

Planetary Science

Plasma Physics

Astrobiology

Astrophysics

About

After completing his undergraduate degree at the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), Dr. Lingam moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Physics. He then undertook postdoctoral stints...

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China Says They May Have Found Traces Of Alien Life

SlashGear

2022-06-17

Although we have absolutely no evidence that fast radio bursts are the result of alien activity, life in the far-off reaches of space is still cited as a possible origin of the phenomenon. The people suggesting aliens could be responsible for fast radio bursts aren't wrapped in aluminum foil or working as talking heads on the History channel, but rather they're quite accomplished. A Harvard study by professors Manasvi Lingam and Avi Loeb is one of the releases from major institutions that have given weight to the theory. Lingham and Loeb claim a transmitter capable of sending radio signals across the distances fast radio bursts may be traveling would need to be huge and require an immense amount of power — equivalent to the sunlight hitting an area twice the size of Earth. The source, according to Lingham and Loeb, could be the "interstellar light sails" of a space-faring vessel that has a "payload of a million tons."

Impact of black hole winds, radiation examined in new study

Phys.org

2022-03-31

"The impact of AGN outflows on the surface habitability of terrestrial planets in the Milky Way" is a research paper by the team of astrobiologist Manasvi Lingam and astrophysicist Eric Perlman from Florida Tech's Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, as well as researchers from the University of Rome, University of Maryland and Goddard Space Flight Center. Published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, the paper examines the effects of the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's center on the atmosphere of planets in the Milky Way. The paper focuses on two key mechanisms: how black hole winds can heat atmospheres and drive atmospheric escape, as well as how they can stimulate the formation of nitrogen oxides and thus lead to ozone depletion.

Free-Floating Exoplanets with Subsurface Oceans Could Sustain Life

Sci-News.com

2021-10-01

Dr. Manasvi Lingam from the Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology and Professor Avi Loeb of Harvard University have studied how life might survive on free-floating, or rogue, planets — interstellar planetary-mass objects without a host planetary system — via oceans prevalent underneath a thick layer of ice.

Florida Tech Astrobiologist Manasvi Lingam’s Research Suggests Rogue Planets Could Sustain Life

Space Coast Daily News

2021-09-30

Planets Gone Rogue Could Sustain Life, According to Recent Study

Florida Tech News

2021-09-28

In research highlighted this summer in Discover Magazine, university astrobiologist Manasvi Lingam (along with Harvard researcher Avi Loeb) studied how life might survive on a rogue planet via oceans prevalent underneath a thick layer of ice. The cold of interstellar space would be too much for the oceans to remain entirely liquid, but the researchers believe any putative biospheres would be protected from the cold via the ice layer, and the planet’s core would heat the planet from the inside. Underneath the ice would potentially exist Earth-like oceans that could support life.