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Jonathan Owen is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. His laboratory studies the mechanism of colloidal quantum dot nucleation and growth and the coordination chemistry of colloidal crystals using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Career
As an undergraduate Owen worked with Prof. Clark Landis and developed diazaphospholanes for asymmetric catalysis. He was a summer research intern with Dr. Peter Nickias in the Ziegler–Natta catalyst group at the Dow Chemical Company in 1998 and 1999. There he learned about the synthesis or organometallic compounds and the application of high throughput synthesis robotics developed by Symyx Technologies to the study of alpha-olefin polymerization.

From 2000-2005 Owen attended the California Institute of Technology and performed studies on the trans effect and trans influence of pyridine derived carbene ligands and the selectivity of methane and methanol C–H activation at Pt(II) centers in the labs of Prof. John E. Bercaw and Jay A. Labinger. With the help of Prof. Dean Roddick and BP he designed equipment for high pressure nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurements.

In 2005 he joined the lab of Prof. A. Paul Alivisatos as an American Chemical Society Alternative Energy Fellow. There he investigated the mechanism of colloidal quantum dot formation and the influence of nanocrystal stoichiometry on the binding of surface ligands using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Together with Dmitri Talapin and Emory Chan, Owen developed the Workstation for Automated Nanoparticle Design and Analysis at the Molecular Foundry of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2009, he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University.