Sydney Happersen attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he made a name for himself as a super genius. He later became the world's leading expert on dimensional interconnectivity. He became a professor at the university after graduation and tutored an eight-year-old Lex Luthor.[1] Due to his extensive knowledge of dimensional portals, he later began working as a LuthorCorp technician under Luthor[2] and invented the Dimensional Portal technology for the corporation.