Jonas is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, working at the interface of RNA chemistry, peptide systems, and supramolecular assembly to explore how functional biomolecules may have emerged under prebiotic conditions on early Earth. He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at UNSW, where he worked on small-molecule drugs and protein nanoparticles, and previously trained in Biomedical Chemistry in Mainz, Germany.