Vipul Singh is a Professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi. He earned his doctorate from the University of Delhi and completed his postdoctoral research at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. With over twenty-five years of teaching experience, he has been actively engaged in teaching, research, and mentoring postgraduate, and doctoral scholars, particularly in the field of environmental history.

His research focuses on the environmental history of ecologically fragile regions of India, especially the arid landscapes of Western Rajasthan and the floodplains of the Ganga. His broader academic interests include fluvial landscapes, inland fisheries, plantation ecology, disease, migration, ecocriticism, climate history, and historical GIS.

Vipul Singh is an alumnus Carson Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany. In 2019, he was recognized by the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations for his sustained contributions to environmental history research. He currently serves as a Board Member of the Asian Association for Environmental History and is on the Editorial Board of Water History, published by Springer.

His recent publications include the book Speaking Rivers: Environmental History of a Mid-Ganga Flood Country (2018), and research articles such as "Cyclones, Shipwrecks and Environmental Anxiety: British Rule and Ecological Change in the Andaman Islands, the 1780s to 1900s" (Global Environment, 2020), "Governing Fluvial Commons in Colonial Bihar: Alluvion and Diluvion Regulation and Decommonisation" (Routledge, 2021), and "Ruling the Unruly Winds: 1864 Cyclone and Meteorological Modelling in the Indian Ocean" (Indian Historical Review, 2025).

He is currently working on a book exploring the effects of global climate anomalies and oceanic circulations on early modern India.

Beyond academia, Vipul Singh promotes public engagement with history through his blog, speakinghistory.org, and his YouTube channel, @soft-earth, where he shares podcasts and videos on environmental history, historical geography, climate change, maps, and related themes.