Dr. Wesley Transue grew up in northern Virginia and first came to Pittsburgh for his undergraduate education at Carnegie Mellon University. He performed research in the lab of Prof. Stefan Bernhard, where he developed an interest in inorganic chemistry and synthesis. This led to him to pursue his graduate studies at MIT under the guidance of Prof. Christopher (Kit) Cummins, studying synthetic methods to access subvalent main group species and characterize their reactivities. His postdoctoral studies were conducted in the lab of Prof. Edward Solomon at Stanford, and revolved around the use of spectroscopic techniques to characterize the active sites of enzymes and model complexes thereof. He returned to Pittsburgh in 2022 to begin his career as an assistant professor at Pitt. There, his research program has focused on the application of inorganic synthesis and spectroscopy to tackle questions in magnetochemistry, especially those with applications in quantum information science. View his research webpage.