Matthew Jones FRSC is a Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bath. Having completed his PhD at Cambridge University (under the supervision of Prof. B.F.G. Johnson FRS) he moved to Bath in 2004 to undertake a Post-doc in the group of Prof. M.G. Davidson. He was appointed to an RCUK academic fellowship in 2007, lectureship in 2011, senior lectureship in 2012, to reader in December 2015 and Professor in July 2019. He has published over 130 papers and has an H-index of 33, further Matthew holds several patents relating to the more industrially relevant areas of his work.

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The group’s main research areas are the production of biopolymers, utilisation of biomass and CO2 upgrading. We collaborate with Chemists/Engineers world wide – for example Prof. Joe Wood (Birmingham) EPSRC catalysis hub project (Fuel production from sugars) and recently EP/P016405/1 (a three year program to start in June 2017 looking at the PLA recycling); Prof. Sonja-Herres-Pawlis (Aachen) new initiators for PLA formation and DFT modelling.

  

Matthew teaches on a broad range of inorganic chemistry in the department. He was the recipient of the Mary Tasker Award in 2015, which is awarded for excellence in teaching at the University. He is currently the Director of Teaching in the Department.