Theresa A. Jones

Theresa Jones became an assistant professor in the Psychology Department and Neurobiology and Behavior Program at the University of Washington in 1996. In 2001, she moved to an assistant professor position at her alma mater, in the Psychology Department and Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin. After two years as an assistant professor, Theresa Jones was promoted to an associate professor position for five years, then a full professor in 2008. The following year, she received the UT faculty position of Behavioral Neuroscience Area Head. She spent a year as a Bergeron visiting professor in the Center for Brain Plasticity and Behavior at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. from 2013-2014. Theresa Jones then returned to the University of Texas at Austin to continue her research and teaching.

As a postdoctoral fellow, Theresa Jones was honored with the Donal B. Lindsley Award in Behavioral Neuroscience in 1993. She was among the Top 10 Great Dissertations awarded by the American Psychological Science in 2004. In 2006, she was named both a Raymond Dickson Centennial Teaching Fellow and an American Psychology Association Fellow. Theresa received the President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award in 2012 for her work at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2013, she was named an Association for Psychological Science Fellow. Most recently, Theresa Jones was honored with the Harry Ransom Award for Teaching Excellence in 2014.

Theresa Jones has published upwards of 80 peer-reviewed papers on these subjects, several of which have been cited over 100 times. The first was published in 1990 and the most recent in 2015. Additionally, she authored 10 book chapters and reviews between 1992 and 2013.

Theresa Jones was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on November 1, 1964. Throughout her childhood, her family moved around to Little Rock, Arkansas, Berkley Heights, New Jersey, and St. Louis Missouri. She went to school as an undergraduate student at the University of Missouri. She began studying towards a major in general humanities, but she quickly found interest in the biological aspect of psychology. After leaving the University of Missouri in 1986, she went on to finish her Bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. Theresa Jones enrolled in a graduate Biopsychology program at the University of Texas at Austin under the mentorship of Timothy Schallert. She received her doctoral degree in 1992 for her research on neural plasticity mechanisms of recovery after brain injury. Wanting to continue her studies in brain plasticity, she became a postdoctoral fellow in Behavioral Neuroscience and Biopsychology at the Beckman Institute of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of William Greenough until 1996.