Professor Nick Chiappini grew up in Vernon, NJ, best known for Action Park. He received his BA in Chemistry from Drew University, where he worked in the group of Prof. Ryan Hinrichs studying photochemical oxidation on atmospheric aerosols. He then moved to the West Coast for his PhD, working with Prof. Justin Du Bois at Stanford and developing efficient Rh(II)-catalyzed intermolecular sp3 C-H amination reactions applicable to late state functionalization. Nick was an NIH postdoctoral scholar in the group of Prof. Robert Knowles at Princeton University, where he developed a photochemical platform for oxidative and reductive radical generation from organobismuth compounds. Nick is now an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where his group broadly work on directed functionalization using silicon and organobismuth chemistry. For more information about Nick and his group: https://www.chiappinichem.org/ X: https://twitter.com/ndchiappini Fun and useful articles (from Nick!): Practical Synthesis of α,β-Alkynyl Ketones by Oxidative Alkynylation of Aldehydes with Hypervalent Alkynyliodine Reagents (https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.200131) A CONVENIENT PREPARATION OF ALKYL- AND ARYLSULFONYLPYRIDINES (https://doi.org/10.1080/00304948109356112) Organobismuth Reagents: Synthesis, Properties and Applications in Organic Synthesis (10.1055/s-0036-1589482) Birch Reduction of Arenes Using Sodium Dispersion and DMI under Mild Conditions (https://doi.org/10.1246/cl.210546)