Professor Gerald (Jerry) J. Meyer attended the State University of New York at Albany (B.S. Chemistry and Mathematics, 1985) and the University of Wisconsin at Madison (Ph.D., 1989), working with Arthur B. Ellis. Following a post-doctoral appointment with Thomas J. Meyer he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University and later moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he is now a Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Solar Hub entitled CHASE: the Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels. His research has focused on photochemistry and artificial photosynthesis with particular interest in halide photoredox chemistry, interfacial electron transfer at semiconductor interfaces, and photoelectrosynthetic cells.