• Concussion Legacy Foundation (2022)
• National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (2021-2022)

• Honors, Elective Clerkship in Paediatric Neurology, Harvard Medical School (2017)
• Elective Bursary, Society of British Neurological Surgeons (2017)

Jonathan is an Academic Clinical Fellow training in Neurology and Internal Medicine at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences. He completed his medical training at the University of Oxford in 2017, before pursuing a clerkship in Neurology at Harvard Medical School and an attachment in Neurosurgery at the University of California San Francisco. As a student, Jonathan played cricket for the medical school and hockey for the University of Oxford.

Jonathan has performed research alongside his clinical training since 2017, publishing in the fields of traumatic brain injury, pathology, neurosurgery, and neuropsychology. Jonathan served as Research Lead for the ABN/SBNS Neurology and Neurosurgery Special Interest Group, and he has presented his research at the British Neuroscience Association and at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies. He now teaches for the University of Oxford as a Medical Tutor.

In 2022, he will commence his DPhil in Clinical Neurosciences in Oxford, supervised by Professor Gabriele De Luca and Professor Edward de Haan, and mentored by Professor Margaret Esiri.

During World War II, pioneering neurosurgeon Sir Hugh Cairns transformed St Hugh's College Oxford into the National Military Hospital for Head Injuries. This remarkable institution treated thousands of soldiers returning from Europe with head injuries, while also studying their conditions to gain ground-breaking insights into the nature of concussion, the effect of head injury on intracranial pressure, and the role of head injury rehabilitation.

Many veterans agreed to longitudinal follow-up for decades after their injuries, and a small number donated their brains to scientific research. This unique cohort is a source of incredibly rich neurological, psychological, anatomical, and pathological data, which have been the source of foundational insights published Dr Freda Newcombe's team between 1970 and 2000.

Now, as our understanding of traumatic brain injury, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, dementia, and neurodegeneration has developed, we return to this internationally exceptional cohort and the unique opportunity it provides to answer new questions we face in the fields of traumatic brain injury and neurodegeneration research and rehabilitation.