Dr. Jones is the Assistant Director of the Institute for Sleep and Consciousness at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an Associate Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Jones provides guidance on study design, protocol development, and EEG data analysis through her expertise in understanding sleep’s role in cognitive and emotional functioning. In addition to providing scientific and operational support to for the Institute’s large research program, her ongoing independent research includes an NIH funded R21 to study the role of sleep disruption in daytime mood and attentional performance in children aged 4-11. She has recently been awarded an internal UW pilot award to test a sleep-wearable, closed-loop technology that enhances slow-wave sleep (deep sleep) in otherwise healthy adolescents who get too little sleep.
Dr. Jones received her PhD in Neuroscience and a Master of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.