Jonathan Goodman studied boron-mediated aldol reactions during his PhD with Professor Ian Paterson FRS at the University of Cambridge. He then did a post-doc with Professor Clark Still at Columbia University, before returning to the chemistry department at Cambridge, where he is now Professor of Chemistry, Deputy Director of the Centre for Molecular Informatics and a Fellow of Clare College. In 2013, he won the RSC's Bader Award.
He is currently chair of the CSA Trust, a trustee of the CCDC, secretary of the IUPAC-InChI subcommittee and a committee member of the RSC's chemical information and computer applications group (CICAG).
Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge 
