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.
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.
Early life.
Jones was born in Cardiff on 22 July 1994. As a young child, her father worked at MOD St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, as an Aircraft Electrician. Jones attended Willows High School in Tremorfa, Cardiff until age 15, where she was taught electronics at GCSE level by Keith Allen, whom she described as one of her role models.