Charles Jackson was born in Red Dear, Alberta and moved to Austin, Texas in 2019. Charles is a rising senior at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi and has been preforming undergraduate research with Dr. Mark A. Olson focusing on the synthesis and characterization of novel small molecules with biosensing applications. Charles is conducting research as a summer intern with the MIT summer research program (MSRP) in the Swager Lab under the mentorship of Dr. Georgios Toupalas.