A native of the Minneapolis metro area, Todd received his B.S in chemistry from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in 2008. He then received his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from Colorado State University – Fort Collins in 2013 for his work developing methods to prepare nitrogen-containing heterocycles via Rh(III)-catalyzed C–H activation with Tom Rovis. As part of these studies, Todd spent months in the lab of Thomas Ward at the University of Basel as a Marie Curie fellow developing an artificial metalloenzyme for C–H activation reactions. Following his doctoral work, he joined the lab of Frances Arnold at California Institute of Technology as an NIH postdoctoral fellow, where his work focused on evolving P450s to catalyze nitrene transfer reactions. Todd started his independent career at Princeton University as an assistant professor in the summer of 2015, where his group’s work is primarily focused on developing strategies to enable substrate promiscuous enzymes to catalyze non-natural free-radical reactions. His research has been recognized with the Searle Scholar Award (2017), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship (2018), and the NSF CAREER Award (2019).