Jonathan is Assistant Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Associate Investigator at The Centre for Applied Genomics. His research focuses on the emerging field of "genoeconomics" (which combines insights and methods from both economics and genetics to find genetic variants associated with economic preferences and outcomes and tackle questions of interest to both fields), applied microeconomics, and behavioral and experimental economics. He is a core researcher of the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC).