Andrew J. Wilson grew up in northeast Iowa and attended The University of Iowa where he completed his B.S. in chemistry and conducted research in sonoelectrochemistry in the lab of Johna Leddy. Following graduation, he joined the lab of Katherine A. Willets at The University of Texas at Austin for graduate studies, where he developed optical readouts to report on electrochemistry at the nanoscale. In 2015, Andrew completed his Ph.D. in physical chemistry and assisted in moving the Willets Lab to Temple University, where he continued as a postdoctoral research fellow. He moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana‒Champaign in 2016 where he was a Springborn Postdoctoral Fellow and performed research in plasmonic photochemistry in the lab of Prashant K. Jain. Andrew started his independent career at the University of Louisville in Fall 2020.