Prof. Carter graduated with a BS in Physics from Michigan State University in 2011 and received his PhD in Chemistry from The George Washington University in 2017, where he worked in the lab of Christopher Cahill studying halogen bonding in f-block hybrid materials. Since 2017, he has worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Rebecca Abergel at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, investigating fundamental bonding interactions in f- and d-block coordination complexes with specific applications in radiochemical separations, nuclear medicine, metal-ion decorporation, and nuclear waste stewardship. Research in the Carter group will take advantage of the rich coordination chemistry of the f-block to address fundamental challenges in quantum information science, nuclear medicine, and separations chemistry.