Jon Dobson was born in Columbus, OH, in 1960. He received the B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degree in geological science/geophysics (iron biomineralization/mineral magnetics), from the University of Florida, Gainesville and the Ph.D. degree in natural sciences (mineral magnetics) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich) in 1991. He did his postdoctoral research in the Department of Physics, Institute of Geophysics, ETH-Zurich (1991–1995), before taking the fellowship/lectureship in the Biophysics Programme in the Department of Physics at the University of Western Australia (1995–1998). He is currently a Professor in Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering at Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, U.K. and Eminent Scholar/Visiting Professor at the University of Florida. He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers, is a Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology and the Royal Society of Medicine, and is Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Fellow.