Katherine Elizabeth Jones (born 1972) is a British biodiversity scientist, with a special interest in bats. She is Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity, and Director of the Biodiversity Modelling Research Group, at University College London.[3] She is a past chair of the Bat Conservation Trust.[4][5]
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]
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?[23]
^Grenyer, Richard; Orme, C. David L.; Jackson, Sarah F.; Thomas, Gavin H.; Davies, Richard G.; Davies, T. Jonathan; Jones, Kate E.; Olson, Valerie A.; Ridgely, Robert S.; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Ding, Tzung-Su; Bennett, Peter M.; Blackburn, Tim M.; Gaston, Kevin J.; Gittleman, John L.; Owens, Ian P. F. (2006). "Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates". Nature. 444 (7115): 93–6. Bibcode:2006Natur.444...93G. doi:10.1038/nature05237. PMID17080090. S2CID4391288.
