She received her PhD in experimental aerodynamics from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, in 2010, her S.M. in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT in 2006, and her B.S. in aeronautical and mechanical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2004. At UMD, she teaches a graduate course in unsteady aerodynamics and an undergraduate course in incompressible aerodynamics. Prof. Jones has been awarded the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, and the PECASE from the White House. She is currently chair of a NATO Research Technology Organization task group on gust response and unsteady aerodynamics, an associate fellow of AIAA, and a member of the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, the University of Maryland Energy Research Center, the Maryland Robotics Center, and faculty advisor to the UMD Women in Aeronautics and Astronautics.