Curriculum Vitae

Personal details

Name
Jonathan Jones
Nationality
British
Place of Birth
UK

 
Address for correspondence:
Centre for Quantum Computation
Clarendon Laboratory
Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PU UK
Telephone: +44 1865 272247
FAX: +44 1865 272400
Email: jonathan.jones@qubit.org

Current Position

Professional Affiliations and Awards

Education, Research and Teaching

1985-89
BA Chemistry (1st class), Corpus Christi College, Oxford. (Gibbs Prize for Chemistry, 1988.)
1989-92
DPhil Chemistry, St Johns College (North Senior Scholarship), Oxford. Supervised by Dr P. J. Hore. Thesis title: "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Data-Processing Methods".
1992-93
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, with Prof. G. K. Radda.
1993-96
Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford; working with Prof. G. K. Radda.
1994-95
EPSRC/NATO Research Fellow, College of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, with Prof. A. Pines.
1995-97
Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford; working with Prof. C. M. Dobson at the Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences. College Lecturer in Chemistry, Somerville College Oxford.
1997-98
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences. College Lecturer in Chemistry, Merton College Oxford.
1998-2002
Royal Society University Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Quantum Computation, and Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College Oxford. College Lecturer in Chemistry, Somerville College Oxford.
2002-2003
Royal Society University Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Quantum Computation, and Fellow and Tutor in Physics at Brasenose Collge Oxford.
2003-
University Lecturer in Atomic and Laser Physics, Oxford Centre for Quantum Computation, and Fellow and Tutor in Physics at Brasenose Collge Oxford.
2006-
Title of Professor of Physics

Research Grants

  1. Royal Society, £29K over 54 months.
  2. Starlab (Riverland NV, Belgium), 25,000 Euro over 12 months (with A. Ekert).
  3. Coordinator, JIF application for "Centre for Quantum Information Processing", £774K over 36 months (with 7 others).
  4. EPSRC application for "Development of a new approach for NMR Quantum Computation using 'pure' spin states derived from para-hydrogen", £176K over 24 months (with 3 others).
  5. BBSRC/EPSRC application for "600 MHz spectrometer for studies of protein folding, quantum information processing, and plant physiology", £1393K over 36 months (with 5 others).

Publications

I have 73 published papers in the scientific literature (more than 3800 citations with a h-index of 30 and a w-index of 9), have written two books and contributed chapters to several more, and have presented my work at many national and international conferences.

Public understanding of science

I have delivered public lectures on quantum information processing at a wide range of public meetings and have been interviewed for the TV programme Soul Searching broadcast on Channel 4.

Consulting and related work

I have delivered lectures and seminars on the implications of classical and quantum information processing in e-commerce for Barclays Bank and Visa International. I can be contacted via Oxford University Consulting.

References

Names and addresses of referees are available on request.