Jared C. Lewis was born and raised in Effingham, IL. He obtained his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Illinois (2002, Prof. Eric Oldfield), earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (2007, Profs. Jonathan Ellman and Robert Bergman), and conducted postdoctoral studies at Caltech (2010, Prof. Frances Arnold). He started his independent career at the University of Chicago in 2011, moved to Indiana University as an Associate Professor in 2018, and was promoted to Professor of Chemistry in 2023. His group engineers enzymes and develops new protein engineering tools to enable selective chemical transformations.