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).

Prior to joining the George Mason University, Jonathan was Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. His doctoral work employed a multidisciplinary approach, importing insights from genetics, neuroscience, and psychology to study questions of interest to economists, such as human capital formation, the determinants of economic outcomes, and the effect of cognitive biases on economic choices. During his doctorate, Jonathan also spent a semester at Princeton University working on a project in neuroeconomics.

Beauchamp holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and a Master's degree in Economics from Queen's University, where he specialized in monetary and public economics. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2011, where he was a Trudeau Scholar. Between his doctorate and his postdoc, Jonathan worked for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and as an economist in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.