Jonathan K. Pritchard

Jonathan K. Pritchard is an English-born professor of genetics at the University of Chicago. His research interests lie in the study of human evolution, in particular in understanding the association between genetic variation among human individuals and human traits.

Pritchard's family moved to the USA when he was a teenager. He studied biology and mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, and then went on to graduate studies in biology at Stanford University under the supervision of Marc Feldman, finishing in 1998. He was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator position in 2008, as one of 56 scientists selected from 1070 applications.