Jonathan studied for his undergraduate at the University of York. He did his Masters project with the Materials Group studying "Synthesis and Characterisation of Functionalised Liquid Crystals" under the supervision of Dr Stephen Cowling. Jonathan is now studying for a PhD with Dr. Victor Chechik, Prof. Peter O'Brien and Dr. Alison Parkin. His research is focused on "Functionalisation of Heteroarenes and Saturated Heterocycles by Electrochemically-Generated Free Radicals". This involves performing synthetic transformations using electrochemistry.