Eric Standley is a Senior Research Scientist in Process Chemistry at Gilead Sciences, Inc. in Foster City, California. After obtaining a BS in Chemistry and BA in German Languages and Literature from Boise State University, he moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for doctoral studies in the research group of Prof. Timothy Jamison as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. The central focus of Eric’s research at MIT was on enabling existing and novel nickel-catalyzed C–C bond-forming transformations through the development of reliable, air-stable nickel precatalysts. Eric then moved to the research laboratories of Prof. Frank Glorius at the Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow. In his time in the Glorius group, Eric worked in the area of visible-light photocatalysis and on non-traditional approaches to high-throughput screening to enable reaction discovery and development. At Gilead, he supports chemical process development and manufacture of clinical-stage APIs across a variety of therapeutic areas.