Nikki Magdaong obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2003. In 2015, she obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Connecticut under the supervision of Prof. Harry Frank, for her thesis on the spectroscopy and photophysics of carotenoids in solution and in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes. She then took a postdoctoral research position with Prof. Robert Blankenship at Washington University in St. Louis, where she worked on the biochemical and spectroscopic characterization of various photosynthetic light harvesting antenna complexes. In 2018, she joined Prof. Dewey Holten’s Lab at WashU as a Staff Scientist, where she carried out photophysical investigations on different tetrapyrroles for solar energy storage and photomedicine applications, as well as studies on “wrong way” electron transfer in photosynthetic bacterial reaction centers.