Jonathan obtained a BA in Mathematics from Cambridge in 2004, and then went on to obtain an MSc with Distinction in Operational Research at Edinburgh in 2005.
Following this he embarked on a PhD with Julian Hall at Edinburgh. After taking a year's break part way through to work as a research assistant at RAL, he returned to complete his thesis "High Performance Cholesky and Symmetric Indefinite Factorizations with Applications" in early 2010.
Jonathan is currently working in a role at STFC with dual responsibilities: as software and commercial manager for the HSL software library; and as a researcher in numerical linear algebra.