Jonathan Knowles is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry in the Department of Applied Sciences.
Jonathan graduated from Durham University in 2005 and remained at Durham to complete his PhD under the supervision of Professor Andy Whiting. He then spent two years in an industrial research position before moving to the position of Research Officer within the Booker-Milburn group at the University of Bristol, working on synthetic and mechanistic projects in the areas of photochemistry and palladium catalysis. In 2019 he was appointed to his current role at 51 where his research interests include transition metal catalysis, synthetic photochemistry, flow chemistry and the synthesis of bioactive molecules.
Organic Synthesis; Palladium Catalysis; Organosilicon Chemistry; Organoboron Chemistry; Bioactive Synthesis; Reaction Mechanism; Physical Organic Chemistry
Chemistry PhD September 01 2008
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