Kuljeet Kaur

Work Experience

1. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Gandhinagar, (2025-Present).
2. Assistant Professor, Department of Polymer and Process Engineering, IIT Roorkee, (2024-2025).
3. NCCR-WINS Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecolé Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Material Science and Engineering. (2020-2022).
4. Jubilant Biosys Ltd., Noida, India, Research Associate (Organic R & D), (2010-2014).

Teaching

Instructor

• CH-591-1 – Introduction to Polymer Chemistry, Spring 2026, IIT Gandhinagar

• PEL-513 – Functional Polymers and Semiconductors, Spring 2025, IIT Roorkee

• PES-501 – Polymers for Society and Sustainability, Fall, 2024, IIT Roorkee

• PEC-511 – Polymer Synthesis and Characterization Lab, Fall 2024, IIT Roorkee

Teaching Assistant

• MSE 437 – Polymer chemistry and macromolecular engineering, School of Engineering, Institute of Materials (STI-IMX) EPFL, Fall 2020 and Fall 2021.

• CHEM 2546 – Organic chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Spring 2017.

• CHEM 1046 – General chemistry II, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Spring 2015 and 2016.

• CHEM 1045 – General chemistry I, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Fall 2015 and 2016.

Education

• Ph. D in Chemistry, Virginia Tech, 2019.

Thesis Tittle: Evaluation, and Applications of Hydrogen Sul de-Releasing Supramolecular Materials.

Advisor: John B. Matson

• M.Sc. (Hons.), Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, 2010

Thesis Tittle: The Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Napthaqinone based Chemosensors.

Advisor: Subodh Kumar.

• B.Sc. (Hons.), Chemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, 2008

Awards and Recognitions

• ACS Polymeric Material: Science and Engineering (PMSE) Future Faculty Award, 2024.
• Women in Science (WINS) Postdoctoral Fellowship funded by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR), (2020-2022).
• Graduate School Doctoral Assistantship Award, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, 2019.