Leland Gee is currently a Project Scientist at the Linear Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He earned his Ph. D. in 2016 at the University of California, Davis under the mentorship of Prof. Stephen P. Cramer studying gas-processing enzymes (nitrogenase, hydrogenase) via nuclear resonance spectroscopies. He was then an NIH F32 Postdoctoral Scholar under the mentorship of Prof.. Edward I. Solomon at Stanford University studying reactive frontier molecular orbitals of high-valent Fe(IV)=O systems.