Jeremy was born and raised in Santo, Texas. After highschool, he attended Tarleton State University where he received a B.S. in chemistry and mathematics followed by graduate school at Texas A&M University where he worked with Donald J. Darensbourg exploring the chromium(III) catalyzed copolymerization of carbon dioxide and carbon disulfide with epoxides. After receiving his Ph. D., he worked in the lab for Dr. T. Brent Gunnoe (Univ. of Virginia) as a member of the Center for Catalytic Hydrocarbon Functionalization (DOE-CCHF). At UVa, he focused his studies on the synthesis and analysis of single site Pt(II) catalysts tethered to mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) for the hydroarylation of olefins. He is currently an associate professor of chemistry at Worcester State University, where he is continuing the theme of synthesizing transition metal complexes towards the use carbon dioxide as a C1 feedstock, atom economic processes, and catalysis in water.