Jeopardy! ACS 150th Anniversary Edition

Dr. Shelley Minteer is a Professor of Chemistry and the Director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability at Missouri University of Science and Technology. She is also the Director of the NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry. She received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Iowa in 2000 under the direction of Professor Johna Leddy. After receiving her PhD, she spent 11 years as a faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Saint Louis University before moving to the University of Utah in 2011 to lead the USTAR Alternative Energy Cluster. She was a Technical Editor for the Journal of the Electrochemical Society (2013-2016) and also an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society (2016-2020) before becoming the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the ACS Au Journals. She has published greater than 450 publications and greater than 550 presentations at national and international conferences and universities. She has won several awards including the Luigi Galvani Prize of the Bioelectrochemical Society,  International Society of Electrochemistry Tajima Prize and Bioelectrochemistry Prize, Grahame Award of the Electrochemical Society, Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and the International Society of Electrochemistry, American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Electrochemistry, and the Society of Electroanalytical Chemists’ Young Investigator Award and Reilley Award. Her research interests are focused on electrocatalysis and bioanalytical electrochemistry. She has expertise in biosensors, biofuel cells, electrosynthesis, and bioelectronics.

Dr. Fun Man Fung is an Assistant Professor at the School of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Ireland. He earned his postgraduate degrees from the National University of Singapore and the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Dr. Fung is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland (FICI) and a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (FYAE). He is the Founding Chair of the ACS International Chemical Sciences Chapter in Singapore and serves as an ACS Career Consultant. Additionally, Dr. Fung is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Chemical Education and is serving two terms on the Early-Career Advisory Board of JACS Au (2024–2026). In his spare time, he aspires to become a better Jeopardy! player.

Isabella Sullivan is a senior chemistry major with a minor in business at Texas Christian University. She conducts undergraduate research in the Simanek Lab studying the molecular motion of macrocycles. She is interested in pursuing a career in cosmetic chemistry and hopes to one day launch her own cosmetic brand.