Nick is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Concordia University of Wisconsin in 2017, where he conducted experimental research with the pharmacy school to synthesize novel opioid compounds and used computational chemistry to complement his lab work. He went on to pursue his PhD in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, working in the group of Dr. Wilfred T. Tysoe. Although the Tysoe group is primarily an experimental group in surface science, tribochemistry, and heterogeneous catalysis, Nick joined as the group’s computational chemist, collaborating closely with experimentalists. He completed his PhD in 2024, with a dissertation focused on Computational Mechanochemistry, bridging theory and experiment to better understand how mechanical forces drive chemical reactivity.

Nick is a postdoc in the Tabor group and works on the development of computational toolkits for mechanochemistry.