Jonathan is a Zassenhaus Assistant Professor (postdoc) in the Department of Mathematics at The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Baylor University in 2022 under the supervision of Fritz Gesztesy and attended Carson-Newman University for undergraduate studies. Before graduate school, he was a US Army logistics officer in the 82nd Airborne Division where he led Paratroopers and spent much of his time jumping out of perfectly good airplanes.

Jonathan’s general research interests include spectral theory, operator theory, special functions, and orthogonal polynomials. In particular, he studies functions related to the spectral theory of Sturm-Liouville operators such as spectral zeta functions, Weyl m-functions, and Donoghue m-functions. He has begun studying techniques in asymptotic analysis and resurgence to help solve some of the problems that arise in spectral theory.