Dr. Nathan Jones

Assistant Professor of Chemistry
PDF (Killam Fellow, University of Alberta, Ronald G. Cavell)
PhD (University of British Columbia, Brian R. James)

Nathan was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, and educated at St. George's College, Harare, and then at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, as a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) scholar.

He obtained a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1996, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2001 under Professor Brian R. James. His thesis title was "Platinum Group Metal Complexes of Pyridyl- and Anilinyldiphosphine Ligands."

In 2002, he became an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where he worked with Professor Ronald G. Cavell on late-metal carbene complexes. In July, 2004, he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Western Ontario as an assistant professor of inorganic chemistry.

Nathan is interested in all things chemical and linguistic (including computer languages and poetry and poetry written in computer languages). He is fascinated by history, politics, economics and philosophy.