Lisa Michelle Jones (born February 1977) is an American professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
She was a Pfizer postdoctoral researcher at Washington University in St. Louis working with Michael Gross on MS-based protein footprinting developed by Maleknia and co-workers in the late 1990s.
[10] In her research, Jones focusses on structural proteomics, having developed fast photochemical oxidation of proteins (FPOP) which uses an excimer laser for photolysis, which generates hydroxyl radicals.
She is a mentor in the UMD CURE Scholars Program [14][15] and a member of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Diversity and Outreach Working Group.
[17] In 2021, Jones was in the news for turning down a faculty position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in protest of controversy regarding the tenure status of journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.