She is a bioinorganic chemist by training and received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Montana State University in the lab of Joan Broderick investigating Radical SAM enzymes. Sunshine spent about two and a half years as a Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne National lab working with Lisa Utschig in the Solar Energy Conversion Group in the CSE division. Sunshine taught at Concordia University Chicago for two years and then joined the faculty at NPU in the fall of 2015. Sunshine’s current research interests include the characterization of the peroxidases found in dandelions and the design of new transition metal catalysts for light driven hydrogen production.