Ney majored in physics and philosophy at Tulane University, graduating in 1999.
She then went to Brown University for graduate study in philosophy, earning a master's degree in 2003 and completing her Ph.D. in 2005.
[1] Her dissertation, The Metaphysics of Unified Science, was supervised by Jaegwon Kim.
She joined the University of California, Davis in 2015 and was promoted to full professor in 2019.
[4] Ney's books include: With David Albert, she is co-editor of The Wave Function: Essays in the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics (Oxford University Press, 2013).