Richard Anthony Lewis Jones

Education Jones was educated at Denstone College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he studied the Natural Sciences Tripos and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics 1983.

Career and research After postdoctoral research at Cornell University, he was appointed a lecturer at the University of Cambridge based at the Cavendish Laboratory

Jones' research in thin films has stimulated a new research field. He has extended his studies to the denaturation of proteins at interfaces, demonstrating how the surface hydrophilicity has a strong effect, with implications for problems ranging from fouling to disease.

In 2018 he co-authored The Biomedical Bubble with , which argued that United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) needs a greater diversity of priorities, politics, places and people.

In 2020, Jones moved to Manchester.

Awards and honours Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2006 for "substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge".

In 2021, Jones was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.