{"id":24,"date":"2013-08-02T11:57:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T14:44:58","slug":"personal-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/personal-information","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/08\/IMG_3334_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-205 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/08\/IMG_3334_small-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Courtesy of Jon Eilbes\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/08\/IMG_3334_small-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/08\/IMG_3334_small-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/08\/IMG_3334_small-624x936.jpg 624w, https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/08\/IMG_3334_small.jpg 712w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Amanda C. Jones<br \/>\n<\/strong>Associate Professor of Chemistry<br \/>\nA.B., 2001, Princeton University<br \/>\nPh.D., 2007, University of Wisconsin<br \/>\nNIH Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2010, California Institute of Technology<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong>About me.<\/strong>\u00a0 I was born and raised in a northern suburb of Chicago. Inspired by my university librarian father, I wanted to be an &#8220;Academic&#8221; long before I truly knew what that meant. I arrived as an undergraduate at Princeton University with too many interests to name and little sense of direction, but I registered for general chemistry with a vague notion of being pre-med and a slightly more distinct notion that I wanted to major in a science. That that major would end up chemistry could not have been further from my mind, until I took organic chemistry with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~mjjr\/\">Prof. Maitland Jones, Jr.<\/a> and subsequently participated in undergraduate research with him. It was in his laboratory that I developed a passion for mechanistic organic chemistry. After graduating with honors in 2001 I began graduate studies with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chem.wisc.edu\/areas\/reich\/group\/index.htm\">Prof. Hans J. Reich<\/a> at the University of Wisconsin. There I used rapid-injection NMR to study the reactivity of organolithium aggregates and ion-pairs. During that time I also became fascinated by total synthesis. As a way to broaden my synthetic chemical experience, as well as to gain additional perspective on how mechanistic chemistry can facilitate synthetic reaction optimization and application, I decided to pursue postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of <a href=\"http:\/\/stoltz.caltech.edu\/\">Prof. Brian M. Stoltz<\/a>. I joined the faculty at Wake Forest University in the summer of 2010. I am a proud bicycle commuter and mother to <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/personal-information\/ender\">Ender<\/a> and have amazing support from my emergency management expert spouse Jon, who volunteers extensively with <a href=\"https:\/\/teamrubiconusa.org\/\">Team Rubicon<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/08\/MG_4204-e1375458924462.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/08\/MG_4204-e1375458924462-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_4204\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/08\/MG_4204-e1375458924462-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2013\/08\/MG_4204-e1375458924462-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda C. Jones Associate Professor of Chemistry A.B., 2001, Princeton University Ph.D., 2007, University of Wisconsin NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2010, California Institute of Technology About me.\u00a0 I was born and raised in a northern suburb of Chicago. Inspired by my university librarian father, I wanted to be an &#8220;Academic&#8221; long before I truly knew what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.sites.wfu.edu\/amanda-jones\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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