Kate Jones (scientist)

Katherine Elizabeth Jones (born 1972) is a British biodiversity scientist, with a special interest in bats. She holds the Chair in Ecology and Biodiversity jointly at University College London and the Zoological Society of London,^[3] and she is chair of the Bat Conservation Trust.^[5]

Education

Jones graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Leeds in 1993 and with a Ph.D. from the University of Surrey in 1998.^[3][6]

Research

Jones is interested in understanding how biodiversity is maintained and conserved globally.^[7] She won a 2008 Philip Leverhulme Award in Zoology (given to "outstanding young scholars … whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise") and holds a number of scientific advisory board positions for national and international conservation charities.^[8]

Jones has researched bats in Transylvania where she developed new ways of monitoring bat populations through sound.^[9][10]

Jones has been involved in a number of citizen science projects including Bat Detective and a phone related bat monitoring project.^{[1][11][12][13]} According to Google Scholar^[2] and Scopus^[14] her most cited papers have been published in Science^[15] and Nature.^{[16][17][18][19]}

Jones says that Charles Darwin is "allegedly" her 8th cousin 6 times removed.^[20][21] This implies that her 13 times great-grandfather was Darwin's 7 times great-grandfather.^[22]

Personal life

Jones is also known for her love of cocktails, which she discussed with Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC radio programme The Life Scientific.^{[23][24][25][26]}

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