Prof. Dan Weix was born and raised in Oak Creek, WI, just south of Milwaukee. After graduating high school he attended Columbia University in New York where he received his B.A. in Chemistry and conducted research under Prof. Thomas Katz. After completing his undergraduate studies, he moved to the west coast to undertake graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley where he worked with Prof. Jonathan Ellman on synthesis and application of tert-butanesulfinamide. Upon completion of his Ph.D. he began postdoctoral research with Prof. John Hartwig at Yale University, before moving with John to the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. As an NIH postdoctoral fellow, he worked on enantioselective Ir-catalyzed allylation reactions. Currently, Dan is the Wayland E. Noland Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison where his group broadly work on cross-electrophile couplings, understanding mechanisms, and using semiconductor quantum dots for organic catalysis. For more information about Dan and his group: https://weixgroup.chem.wisc.edu/ X: https://twitter.com/weixgroup Check out Julianna's work on semiconductor quantum dots: https://youtu.be/Yn21uh4_odc?si=RlCXL8GsAgZ--sVK