Dr. Andrew T. Morehead, Jr. is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at East Carolina University (ECU). He received his PhD in Chemistry from Duke University in 1996, and following a two-year National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology began his academic career at the University of Maryland-College Park. He moved to ECU in 2003, and has been Chair since 2015. His research interests revolve around asymmetric catalysis, particularly C-H activation as applied to the synthesis of pharmacologically relevant building blocks. He also has a long-term research interest in the mechanisms of organic and organometallic reactions.