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Jonathan Burton is Professor of Organic Chemistry and a Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College.  He heads-up a research group working on numerous aspects of organic synthesis, methodology, reactivity, and structure determination. Jonathan began his independent research career as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2000-2006) before moving to Oxford in 2007.  Before this he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Cambridge with Andrew Holmes (methodology and natural product synthesis) and a Post-Doctoral researcher with Alex Alexakis in Paris (enantioselective catalysis).  He obtained his B.A. (Chemistry) from the University of Oxford and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge working with Andrew Holmes on medium-ring ether natural products.