My name's Jonathan.

(But everyone calls me Jo.)

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I'm a science, technology, and policy fellow in the Solar Energy Technologies Office at the Department of Energy.

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I completed my PhD in chemistry in 2021, studying inorganic electrochemistry under Yogi Surendranath at MIT.

My thesis work focused on the deep decarbonization of industrial processes reliant upon fossil hydrocarbons.

I also made the group website and obtained modest success running our lab Twitter as a electrochemistry meme account.

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While at MIT, I was a Graduate Resident Adviser at East Campus.

For four years, I served as an underpaid student advocate, mental health paraprofessional, and puzzlehunt organizer for a hall of 40 undergraduate residents.

I think they liked me, because they gave me an engraved sword when I graduated.

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I graduated from UC Berkeley in 2016.

While there, I worked with the Long Group on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).

Let's just say there's a reason the lab tour is a text adventure.