Dr. Lauren Murray earned her Ph.D. in synthetic organic chemistry under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Jonathan George at the University of Adelaide in 2021. Her Ph.D. research focused primarily on developing biomimetic total syntheses of complex meroterpenoid natural products, to gain insight into their biosynthetic pathways. Dr. Murray completed part of her doctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Bradley Moore at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego), where she investigated the biosynthesis of complex marine natural products. Following her Ph.D., Dr. Murray moved to a postdoctoral research position at the University of Michigan in the laboratory of Assoc. Prof. Alison Narayan. Throughout her postdoctoral research, she has harnessed the reactivity and selectivity of enzymes for chemoenzymatic synthesis and explored their potential as broader biocatalysts to access complex and synthetically challenging bioactive molecules.