Kaur, Harpreet

Interpreting Electrical Insulation Behaviour of Silicone & EPDM Polymers: Spectroscopic Monitoring of Molecular Structure Under Varying Electrical Stress (in English)

Dr. Kaur earned her M.Tech. in Polymer Science and Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, where her thesis focused on polymer/elastomer/clay nanocomposites. She then completed her PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar in 2022, with research on light-matter interactions to understand molecular structures. Since September 2022 she has been serving as Post-Doctoral Fellow under Prof. Dennis Hore at the University of Victoria in Canada. In collaboration with ASAsoft, she studies silicone surfaces in response to chemical, electrical, and biological stresses employing a range of spectroscopic tools to investigate molecular-level changes in surface properties of polymeric insulators subjected to such stresses. With extensive experience in characterizing polymer materials through spectroscopic, microscopic, mechanical, rheological, and thermal methods, she is also proficient in vibrational spectroscopy and custom optical set-ups, which play a role in development of in situ Raman measurements for polymer insulators.