# Simon Jones

> Simon Jones is the founder and CEO of Fluid Efficiency, a Caltech spin-out commercializing 'megasupramolecules' (MSMs), self-assembling polymers that make fuels harder to ignite in a crash and oil cheaper to push through a pipeline. An Oxford-trained inorganic chemist who spent years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jones is the industrial chemist who took a decades-old academic dream of safer jet fuel and figured out how to actually manufacture it at scale. He has collaborated with the original Caltech research team behind the technology since 2008.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Fluid Efficiency
- **Organizations:** Fluid Efficiency Corporation, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Contour Energy Systems, University of Arizona, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Oxford
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** M.Chem. in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford, D.Phil. in Inorganic Chemistry, University of Oxford
- **Known for:** Co-developed practical, scalable manufacturing methods for megasupramolecules, the missing piece that turned a lab curiosity into a product, Founded and leads Fluid Efficiency, a Caltech spin-out commercializing MSM polymer technology, Helped secure U.S. EPA registration of MegaSupraMolecules as fuel additives (2018)

## Career timeline

- **Oxford** — Earned M.Chem. and D.Phil. in Inorganic Chemistry
- **Post-Oxford** — Research Scientist at the University of Arizona and Georgia Tech
- **2008** — Began collaborating with Caltech's Ming-Hsin 'Jeremy' Wei and Prof. Julia Kornfield on synthesis and scale-up of long end-associative polymers
- **2010s** — Senior management roles at startups commercializing Caltech and MIT technologies, including Contour Energy Systems; industrial chemist at NASA JPL
- **2015** — Megasupramolecule research published in Science, demonstrating reduced post-impact fuel fires
- **2016** — Fluid Efficiency founded as a Caltech spin-out
- **2018** — Fluid Efficiency registers MegaSupraMolecules with the U.S. EPA as fuel additives
- **2023** — Company raises Series A funding (last raised December 2023)

## Achievements

- Co-developed practical, scalable manufacturing methods for megasupramolecules, the missing piece that turned a lab curiosity into a product
- Founded and leads Fluid Efficiency, a Caltech spin-out commercializing MSM polymer technology
- Helped secure U.S. EPA registration of MegaSupraMolecules as fuel additives (2018)
- Raised venture funding led by Rhapsody Venture Partners with strategic corporate partners including SCG Chemicals and ONEOK
- Contributor to the body of work published in Science (2015) on safer, cleaner fuel

## Latest updates

- **2023-12** — Fluid Efficiency closed Series A funding to scale MSM technology.
- **2018-04** — MegaSupraMolecules secured U.S. EPA registration as fuel additives.

## Links

- Website: https://fluidefficiency.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-jones-43778526

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