Jonathan W. Steed

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Jonathan W. Steed was born in Wimbledon, UK in 1969. He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at University College London, working with Derek Tocher on coordination and organometallic chemistry directed towards the synthesis of inorganic drugs and new metal-mediated synthesis methodologies. He graduated in 1993 winning the Ramsay Medal for his Ph.D. work. Between 1993 and 1995 he was a NATO postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama and University of Missouri, working with Jerry Atwood, where he developed a new class of organometallic hosts for anion binding. In 1995 he was appointed as a Lecturer at King's College London where he has built up a reputation for non-covalent anion coordination chemistry as well as crystal engineering studies using strong and weak hydrogen bonds, and malleable coordination interactions. In 1998 he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal and he was promoted to Reader in 1999. Dr. Steed is the author of the textbook 'Supramolecular Chemistry' (Wiley, 2000) as well as more than 150 research papers, reviews, book chapters and popular articles. He is a European Associate Editor for New J. Chem. and has been on the ChemComm Editorial Advisory Board since 2000.