Robert Roy Jones

Background

Jones, Robert Roy was born on December 6, 1946 in Portadown, Northern Ireland. Son of Robert and Edith Margaret Jones.

Education

Bachelor of Science with honors, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, Liverpool University, England, 1972.

Career

Higher science officer Agricultural Research Council, Cambridge, England, 1972—1976. Ford Foundation fellow in anatomy Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1976—1977. Lalor Foundation fellow National Institute Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, 1977.

Senior science officer Institute Animal Physiology, Cambridge, 1977—1981, principal science officer, 1981—1994. North Atlantic Treaty Organization fellow University Naples, Italy, 1980. Travelling fellow to India British Council, London, 1986.

Senior principal research scientist Babraham Institute, Cambridge, since 1994. Council of management Journal Reproduction and Fertility Society for Study of Fertility, Cambridge, 1993—1998. Associate editor Molecular Reproduction and Development, Beachwood, Ohio, since 1997.

Speaker in field; Served with Royal Air Force, 1966-1969.

Achievements

• Robert Roy Jones has been listed as a notable research scientist, developmental biologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of Wolfson College (senior ), Royal Air Force Club (life).

Interests

• Flying, farming.

Connections

Married Jill Hinton Chapman, August 11, 1973. Children: John William, Timothy James.

Father:

Robert Jones

Mother:

Edith Margaret Jones

Spouse:

Jill Hinton Chapman

child:

Timothy James Jones

child:

John William Jones