Dr. Jones is currently a Research Staff Member in the Computational Chemistry and Materials Research group at IBM Research - Almaden. Dr. Jones is computational chemist with interests in catalysis, molecular properties and polymer formation and degradation. He also engages in investigations on the physical properties of high performance polymers.
Dr. Jones completed his Ph. D. in theoretical/computational organic chemistry at the University of California Los Angeles in 2007 where he focused on computational investigations of synthetically relevant organic reactions. He engaged in postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied mechanisms of organometallic reactions. Dr. Jones joined IBM Research in 2010 as a postdoctoral researcher and became a Research Staff Member in 2013.
