Katherine Elizabeth Jones (born 1972) is a British biodiversity scientist, with a special interest in bats.
[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.
[2][11][12][13][14] According to Google Scholar[1] and Scopus[15] her most cited papers have been published in Science[16] and Nature.
[22] Jones is also known for her love of cocktails, which she discussed with Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC radio programme The Life Scientific.
[2] 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.