Tami Spector is a professor of organic chemistry at the University of San Francisco. She received her B.A. from Bard College, her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College, and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota. Trained as a physical organic chemist her experimental research interests are focused on the transformations of strained ring organics, the design and synthesis of organic selective ion transport systems, and spectroscopic analysis of intramolecular hydrogen bonding. In addition, she has published in the field of computational chemistry with an emphasis on molecular dynamics and free energy calculations of biomolecular systems. She also has a strong interest in aesthetics and chemistry and has published and presented work on The Molecular Aesthetics of Disease, John Dalton and The Aesthetics of Molecular Representation, and The Visual Image of Chemistry.