Marvin Santiago earned his B.S. in Chemistry and Materials Science from the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines. He worked under Prof. Fabian Dayrit on the isolation and property testing of natural products and under Prof. Soma Chakraborty on chitosan-based polymers for water purification. For his M.S. in Chemistry, he worked under Prof. Jennifer Irvin on the synthesis and design of conducting polymer-based materials for biomedical and energy storage applications at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. under the mentorship of Prof. Javier Read de Alaniz and Prof. Christopher M. Bates, working to combine the sequence definition of peptoids and the structural versatility of polymers through click chemistry. In his spare time, he likes checking out local breweries for the next great IPA, hiking around the trails of Santa Barbara, watching Jeopardy (for an eventual audition), traveling, and working up the strength to finally learn how to swim.