Jon is a Research Software Engineer at Newcastle University. He joined the Imago team in November 2025, bringing experience from both academic and research software engineering roles at the interface of high-performance computing, Earth system modelling, and environmental data analysis. At Newcastle University, Jon is developing scalable, optimised data pipelines that bridge the gap between complex Earth Observation data and the practical needs of policymakers.

He holds a PhD in atmospheric sciences from the University of Reading, where he produced the first published dataset of the near-infrared water vapour self-continuum from atmospheric observations. His research has contributed to various UK and EU-wide projects including MAPP (https://www.pmodwrc.ch/en/mapp/) and ASPIC (https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FR00983X%2F1), and he has published in leading journals such as Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics and Geophysical Research Letters. He has contributed to several large scientific models, including the next-generation Momentum framework being developed by the UK Met Office.

Jon is passionate about open science and reproducible research. He has taught programming through The Carpentries, organised international workshops, and actively contributes to the scientific software community. His expertise spans Python, Fortran, GPU computing, and statistical modelling, with a focus on bridging the gap between complex environmental data and practical applications.