Jonathan Goodman studied boron-mediated aldol reactions during his PhD with Professor Ian Paterson FRS at the University of Cambridge. He then did a post-doc with Professor Clark Still at Columbia University, before returning to the chemistry department at Cambridge, where he is now Professor of Chemistry. His research focusses on analysing reaction mechanisms using computational and chemical informatics approaches, and computational toxicology. His research group invented the DP4 methodology for interpreting NMR spectra and the latest development of this, DP4-AI, has just been released. He is chair of the CSA Trust, a trustee of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), secretary of the IUPAC InChI subcommittee, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a committee member of the RSC's Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group (CICAG).