Jason grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and received his B.S. in Chemistry at The Ohio State University in 2015, working with Patrick M. Woodward. His time with Pat at Ohio State started his interest in solid-state chemistry, where he focused on making new perovskite phosphors. He then went to graduate school at Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2020 working with Mercouri G. Kanatzidis. As a graduate student, Jason started a new research direction in the Kanatzidis group, focusing on the synthesis and reactivity of subchalcogenide materials, which have bonding characteristics similar to both intermetallics and chalcogenides.

After completing his Ph.D., Jason was an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University from 2020 to 2023, working with Leslie M. Schoop. His postdoctoral work focused on understanding electron-rich bonding motifs as a design principle for quasi-one-dimensional topological materials.

Jason joined Arizona State University as an Assistant Professor in 2023. His current work is on the interface between synthetic solid-state chemistry and condensed matter physics, utilizing materials discovery and chemical bonding approaches to understand trends in quantum materials with strongly interacting electrons.