Jonathan W. Steed was born in Wimbledon, UK in 1969. He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at University College, London, working with Derek Tocher on coordination and organometallic chemistry directed towards inorganic drugs and new metal-mediated synthesis methodologies. He graduated in 1993, winning the Ramsay Medal for his Ph.D. work. Between 1993 and 1995, he was a NATO postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alabama and University of Missouri, working with Professor Jerry L. Atwood, where he developed a class of organometallic supramolecular hosts for anions. In 1995, he was appointed...