Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre
Email: oliver.jones@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 39925 2632
Campus: Bundoora
Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre
Email: oliver.jones@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 39925 2632
Campus: Bundoora
Oliver grew up in Manchester England. He is a graduate of Imperial College London (PhD and MSc) and Queen Mary University of London (BSc Hons). Following his PhD in 2005, Oliver joined the University of Cambridge as a postdoctoral fellow until 2009. He then worked as a lecturer at the University of Durham before moving to RMIT in 2012 (to get a few years’ experience working abroad). Oliver has held several senior leadership positions at RMIT including Program Manager, HDR Manager, Discipline Leader and Deputy Director of the Water: Effective Technologies and Tools (WETT) Research Centre. He is the former Associate Dean (head) of the Biosciences and Food Technology Discipline (department).
Oliver has developed an international reputation for high quality research. He has broad, interdisciplinary interests across many areas of chemistry, (analytical, biological, environmental) and chemical/environmental engineering (water technology and hydrology) and a sideline in Forensic Science. His work has a focus on solving real world problems in collaboration with active industry engagement.
Oliver has received a number of awards for his research, including the ANZMAG Sir Paul Callaghan medal the SETAC AU Mid-career medal, the RACI Environmental Chemistry Medal and the Barry Inglis Medal from the National Measurement Institute. In 2019 he was listed as ‘Iridium’ on the IUPAC periodic table of outstanding younger chemists (one of only 118 people worldwide to be honoured in this way).
Oliver is also known for his work in Learning and Teaching and received an Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT) Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in 2019. He has a particular interest in the innovative use of technology in Education and developed a game-based app “Chirality-2” to help teach Organic Chemistry. The app is available for free on both Apple and Google devices.
Oliver is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI, and an Associate Fellow of the Institution for Chemical Engineers (AFIChemE). He served on the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Chemistry and was previously President of the Australian and New Zealand Metabolomics Network and a board member of the International Metabolomics Society, and the Australia and New Zealand Society for Magnetic Resonance. His is a current board member of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry.
Oliver is also very keen to communicate science to the public and is a skilled media commentator. He has featured widely in TV, radio and newspapers (Channel 9 News, ABC News, The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Guardian, the Times Higher Education, and the Washington Post) and can be found promoting science on Twitter, Mastodon, Instagram and TikTok as @dr_oli_jones
Professor Jones has worked with a wide variety of Industry partners including the Water Industry, the Food Industry and the Victoria Police Forensic Services Department.
Oliver’s research expertise is in the field of Analytical Biological and Environmental Chemistry with interdisciplinary applications in biology, environmental science, water technology and forensic science. He is particularly interested in tracking the fate and behaviour of pollutants in the environment and determining their possible effects on biological systems.
Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, Metabolomics, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Water Technology
Publications
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Awards
1st edition, Springer, Singapore, 91pp.
Jones, O.A.H (2020).
Metabolomics, 14, 101
Jones, O.A.H (2018).
Journal of Chemical Education 98, 1024-1030
Jones, O.A.H., Stevenson, P.G., Hameka, S.C., Osborne, D.A., Taylor, P.D. and Spencer, M.J.S. (2021).
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The Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE), $110,000
Currell, M., Jones, OAH
3 years
RMIT, $35,000
Jones, OAH, Long, SM
3 years
CSIRO, $315,000
Beale D. Crosswell, J., Bissett, A., Palombo, E., Jones, O.A.H.
3 years
Award date: 2021
Recipients: Oliver Jones
Award date: 2019
Recipients: Oliver Jones
For outstanding contributions to the field of magnetic resonance by a young investigator
Award date: 2015
Recipients: Oliver Jones
Oliver has been successful in winning highly competitive research grants worth over $3.5 million as well as significant in-kind support from industry.
Oliver has featured widely in TV, radio and newspapers where he is skilled at providing informed, evidence-based context, and explaining complex science to a mainstream audience. Examples of his work can be seen at Science Media Centre and Scimex.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.