Dr. Mandeep Kaur was born in January 1990 in Punjab, India. She received her B.Sc. (2010) and M.Sc. (2012) degrees from Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar. She pursued her Ph.D. in Organometallic Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur under the supervision of Prof. Jitendra K. Bera. Her doctoral research focused on “Organometallic Compounds Containing Functionalized Normal and Mesoionic N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Ligands: Directed Synthesis, Catalytic Evaluation, and Antibacterial Activity.” Following her Ph.D., she joined IISER Mohali (2020–2022) as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the group of Prof. Sanjay Singh, where she applied her expertise in air- and moisture-sensitive chemistry to develop Al- and Mg-based catalysts for key organic transformations relevant to sustainable catalysis. She then undertook a second postdoctoral fellowship (2022–2024) at the University of Bath, UK, with Prof. Ulrich Hintermair, where she served as a Research Associate. Her work focused on detailed investigations into f-block (Y, Yb, Eu, Dy) chemistry involving substituted petalenide ligands, contributing to a deeper understanding of their reactivity and potential catalytic applications.

In 2024, she returned to India and joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. Her current research interests include the fundamental understanding of organolanthanides, catalytic applications with mechanistic insight, and the medicinal potential of organometallic complexes.