Researching Jessica Jones
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 339169 people with the Jones surname? In that year Jones was ranked number 2 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Jessica means "God sees" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Jessica Jones on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jessica Jones and the Jones Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 393190 people with the Jones surname in the UK? Jones is now ranked number 2 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 1886751 people with the Jones surname in the USA? Jones is ranked number 4 for popularity in the USA. |
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Jessica Leigh Jones
Jessica Leigh Jones (born 1994) is a Welsh Engineer and Astrophysicist from Cardiff, Wales. She is credited with becoming the first female to win the UK Young Engineer of the Year Award in 2012 for her work designing a portable uterine contraction monitor which cut manufacturing costs by 99%. She was later rewarded for her efforts to commercialise the technology, receiving the IET Intel Inspiration Award for Entrepreneurship in the same year.
From January 2016 Jones has been employed at the Sony UK Technology Centre, Pencoed, Wales, leading the development of advanced manufacturing technology with Japan for which she was recognised in The Telegraph Top 50 Women in Engineering under 35 list 2017. She also holds positions as Director, Engineering Education Scheme Wales and Patron, Alton Convent School, Hampshire, England. Jones is a Liveryman (by Servitude) of the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers, the 84th Livery Company in the City of London.
In 2020, Jones exited from Sony to create iungo Solutions, a technology start-up aiming to help people affected by covid-19 to upskill, retrain and secure re-employment. In 2020 she was appointed as a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. In February, 2021 she was awarded a place on the Royal Society's Entrepreneur in Residence Scheme.
Jones was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to women in engineering in Wales.
In May 2021, Jones was appointed Global Focal Point for Upskilling Migrants for Employment at the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth. She is the youngest Welsh citizen under the age of 30 to receive this diplomatic honour.
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