Professor Jenny Jones

Profile

Prof. Jones is a past EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow and a Professor in Sustainable Energy at the University of Leeds.  She is Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Bioenergy.  She was Financial Manager and Co-Director of the £6.4 million EPSRC SUPERGEN Bioenergy Consortium (2003-2011), and is an executive member of the current SUPERGEN Bioenergy Hub.  Prof. Jones holds a Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from the University of Calgary, Canada (1992), and a M.Sc. in Surface and Colloid Science from the University of Bristol.  She joined the Department of Fuel & Energy, University of Leeds in 1995, and was promoted to Professor in March 2008.  Prior to this, she pursued post-doctoral research at Northern Carbon Research Laboratories, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the area coal and carbon science.  She is author or co-author of approximately 250 journal and conference papers.

Responsibilities

• Director, Centre for Doctoral Training in Bioenergy

Research interests

• Sustainable Energy from Biomass
• Torrefaction of Biomass and other pretreatment technologies
• Ash behaviour
• Biomass and Energy Crops Characterisation Methods
• Biomass, Coal Combustion Models and Validation
• Sustainable Energy with Low Carbon and Low Pollutant Emissions

Qualifications

• PhD Applied Chemistry
• MSc Surface and Colloid Science
• BSc (Hons.) Chemistry

Professional memberships

• FRSC (C.Chem)
• M.Inst.E

Student education

My current teaching duties include research-led teaching in biomass and bioenergy, as well as directing projects on the research modules in the school.  I also lead skills and professional development training for post-graduate students as part of my role as Director for the CDT Bioenergy.

Research groups and institutes

• Clean Combustion
• Industrial Biotechnology and Bio-waste
• Sustainable Low Carbon Futures

Current postgraduate researchers

• Flora Brocza
• Flora Chitalu