Dr. Jonas Peters

Biography

Jonas C. Peters is the Bren Professor of Chemistry and the Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California Institute of Technology. His research expertise lies in inorganic synthesis, reaction chemistry, and mechanistic studies. Peters focuses on developing new concepts in catalysis, including electro- and photocatalytic processes for renewable solar fuel technologies. He is particularly interested in distributed nitrogen fixation, fertilizers, fuels, and the chemical transformations of organic molecules. Peters obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Chicago in 1993 and completed his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. He was a Marshall Scholar at the University of Nottingham in 1994 and later became a Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley in 1999. After starting his academic career at Caltech in 1999, he held several positions, including Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and full Professor before being appointed as the Bren Professor in 2010. Peters served as the Executive Officer from 2013 to 2016.

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