Jacob received his A.B. in Chemistry, Computer Science, and French from Dartmouth College in 2022. His undergraduate research involved marine sponge-derived natural product total synthesis with Professor Gordon Gribble and measles virus nucleoprotein molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with Professor Paul Robustelli. Jacob joined the Gunnoe Group in 2022 and is focused on catalytic organometallic complexes with antimony-based Z-type ligands.