Other names Cocktail Kate Role Scientist | Name Kate Jones Known for www.batdetective.org Books A Guide to British Bats | |
Institutions University College London Alma mater University of Leeds (BSc)
University of Surrey (PhD) Thesis Evolution of bat life-histories (1998) Doctoral students Henry Ferguson-Gow
Liz Moorcroft
Tim Lucas Fields Biodiversity, Macroecology, Evolution, Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage | ||
Institution University College London | ||
Kate jones what was your spark the spark
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, and she is chair of the Bat Conservation Trust.
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- Kate jones what was your spark the spark
- Why and why not is a matter of specifics kate jones at tedxdeextinction
- Education
- Research
- Personal life
- References
Why and why not is a matter of specifics kate jones at tedxdeextinction
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.
Research
Jones is interested in understanding how biodiversity is maintained and conserved globally. 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.
Jones has researched bats in Transylvania where she developed new ways of monitoring bat populations through sound.
Jones has been involved in a number of citizen science projects including Bat Detective and a phone related bat monitoring project. According to Google Scholar and Scopus her most cited papers have been published in Science and Nature.
Jones says that Charles Darwin is "allegedly" her 8th cousin 6 times removed. This implies that her 13 times great-grandfather was Darwin's 7 times great-grandfather.
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.
In a Guardian feature on "Why more women should consider a career in science", Jones said:
Being a scientist helps me understand the amazing diversity and evolution of life and gives me freedom to answer questions that most interest me. This amazing job has taken me all over the world meeting people and wildlife I only imagined. Why on earth would you want to do anything else?