Role

Yarshini Kumar is a Research Scientist in the Gas Metrology and Trace Analysis group. She is currently working on the preparation and certification of Environmental Gases, including the analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds and Hyperbaric samples using Gas Chromatography. Yarshini also works with the Trace Water Vapour facility, measuring water vapour concentrations using Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy for high-performance barrier layers.

Biography

Yarshini graduated from the University of Southampton, obtaining a Masters of Chemistry (MChem) in 2011. As part of her degree, she carried out an industrial placement at NPL, doing research on comparative methods in accurately measuring mercury vapour in ambient air.

Yarshini is an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Selected publications

• Accurate Measurements of Water Vapour Transmission through High-Performance Barrier Layers
  P.J. Brewer, B.A. Goody, Y. Kumar and M.J.T. Milton
  Review of Scientific Instruments, 2012, 83, 075118 (2012)
• Memory Effects on Adsorption Tubes for Mercury Vapour Measurement in Ambient Air: Elucidation, Quantification, and Strategies for Mitigation of Analytical Bias
  R.J.C. Brown, Y. Kumar, A.S. Brown and K.-H. Kim
  Environmental Science and Technology, 2011, 45, 7812-7818
• Field Comparison of Manual and Semi-Automatic Methods for the Measurement of total gaseous Mercury in Ambient Air and Assessment of equivalence
  R.J.C. Brown, Y. Kumar, A.S. Brown, M.A. Dexter and W.T. Corns
  Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2012, 14, 657

Contact details

E-mail: yarshini.kumar@npl.co.uk
Tel: 020 8943 7120