Yvonne Jones

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Edith Yvonne Jones (born 22 September 1960) the Sir Andrew McMichael Professor of Structural Immunology at the University of Oxford, and a professorial fellow of Jesus College.

Early life and education Jones was born in 1960 in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. She was educated at Llanfyllin High School in Wales. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford in 1985 for structural and dynamic studies of biological macromolecules supervised by Andrew Miller and David Chilton Phillips.

Research and career During postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh Jones performed neutron scattering experiments at the Institut Laue–Langevin in Grenoble to investigate the properties of collagen. She subsequently returned to Oxford to learn protein crystallography, and determined one of the first structures of a cytokine, tumour necrosis factor (TNF) with David Stuart. During her research, Jones contributed to the Medical Research Council (MRC) HIV/AIDS programs investigating the structure of reverse transcriptase for the development of antiviral drugs. In 1991 Yvonne started her own research laboratory at the University of Oxford funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF) until 2001. In 2021 she was appointed the Sir Andrew McMichael Professor of Structural Immunology at Oxford and elected a professorial fellow of Jesus College, having been a senior research fellow of the college since 2006.

Awards and honours Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017. awarded the Descartes Prize by the European Union in 2002 and awarded EMBO Membership in 2007.