Dr Jon Kitchen completed his PhD and Postdoctoral Research under the supervision of MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator Professor Sally Brooker.
In 2013 he moved to the University of Southampton to lecture and further his research area - supramolecular materials chemistry.
In 2017 he returned to New Zealand and established the JAK supramolecular materials group, which carries out the research at The School of Natural and Computational Sciences.
Dr Kitchen and his students collaborate on supramolecular materials chemistry with researchers from around the world.