Andrew M Jones received his BSc (Sports Science, First Class, 1991) and PhD (Exercise Physiology, 1994) degrees from the University of Brighton before completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Respiratory Physiology at the University of California at Los Angeles.

He worked as a sports physiologist at the Sports Council for Wales before taking up a lecturing position at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he was promoted to Reader (2001) and then Professor of Applied Physiology (2004).

In August 2005, Professor Jones took up a new position as Chair of Applied Physiology at the University of Exeter. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, the European College of Sports Sciences and the Institute of Biology and a member of the Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society.

Professor Jones is a foreign consulting editor for Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (from July 2005) and a member of the Advisory Board for the Journal of Sports Sciences. He is internationally recognised for his research in exercise gas exchange dynamics, exercise testing and endurance training. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and is co-editor of the text book Oxygen uptake kinetics in sport, exercise and medicine. He has a keen interest in the application of his research and is the consultant sports physiologist to UK Athletics.

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 Andrew Jones.