Dr. Mark Aparece received both his B.S. and M.S. in chemistry from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He taught organic chemistry and chemistry for nursing students at Loyola University Chicago as a visiting lecturer before moving to Massachusetts in 2015 to pursue a Ph.D. at Boston College with Prof. James Morken. His research in the Morken lab focused on developing transformations of boronic esters centered on the palladium-catalyzed 1,2-metallate shift mechanism. In the summer of 2020, Dr. Aparece joined the faculty at Northeastern University as an assistant teaching professor of chemistry.