Dr. Manjit Kaur is a staff research physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. Kaur joined PPPL in December 2022 to perform H-mode pedestal studies on the NSTX and other spherical tokamaks. Additionally, she is actively involved in a collaborative project between PPPL and the University of Seville, Spain. Her responsibilities include the design and development of a Thomson scattering diagnostic for the SMART (SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak) in Spain. Before moving to PPPL, Kaur worked as a project scientist at the University of California, Irvine, where her research was focused on edge bias-driven electron heating in the beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas in TAE's C-2W machine. Her academic journey began with doctoral research at the Institute for Plasma Research, India, culminating in the identification and verification of the cause of dust vortex formation in a D.C. glow discharge. Subsequently, as a postdoctoral researcher at Swarthmore College, Kaur delved into the study of the thermodynamic properties of a magnetized plasma in the SSX wind tunnel. Throughout her research career, she has authored several scholarly articles and developed and worked on several electrical probes (Langmuir probes, energy analyzers), magnetic probes, and advanced non-invasive diagnostics, such as Thomson scattering, ion-Doppler spectroscopy, visible and far-infra-red interferometry.