Curriculum Vitae:  Vaughan F. R. Jones
Date & Place of Birth:  31 December 1952, Gisborne, New Zealand.
Married (Martha Weare Jones [nee Myers], April 7, 1979 in New Jersey);
   3 children 
   (Bethany Martha Jones; Ian Randal Jones; Alice Collins Jones).
Schooling:
   Preparatory School (1961-65), St.Peter's School, Cambridge, NZ.
   Secondary School (1966-69), Auckland Grammar School, Auckland, NZ.
   Undergrad studies (1970-73), Univ. of Auckland, Auckland, NZ.
   Graduate studies (1974-76), Ecole de Physique, Geneva, Switzerland.
                    (1976-80), Ecole de Mathematiques, Geneva, Switz.
   Degrees:  B.Sc, 1972, Auckland Univ.
             M.Sc., 1973, Auckland Univ. (First Class Honors)
             Docteur es Sciences [Math], 1979, Geneva.
                (Supervisor: A.Haefliger)
Employment:
  1974     Junior Lecturer, Univ. of Auckland
  1975-80  Assistant, Univ. de Geneve, Switzerland
  1980-81  E.R.Hedrick Asst. Prof., UCLA, Los Angeles, California
  1981-82  Visiting Lecturer, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  1981-84  Assistant Professor, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  1984-85  Associate Professor, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  1985--   Professor of Mathematics, Univ. of California, Berkeley.

Special Awards:
  1969  Universites Entrance Scholarship
  1969  Gillies Scholarship (for study at Auckland Univ.)
  1969  Phillips Industries Bursary
  1973  Swiss Government Scholarship (for study in Switzerland)
  1973  F.W.W. Rhodes Memorial Scholarship
  1980  Vacheron Constantin Prize (for thesis, Univ. de Geneve)
  1983  Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
  1986  Guggenheim Fellowship
  1990  Fellow of the Royal Society
  1990  Fields Medal
  1991  New Zealand Government Science Medal(Now Rutherford Medal)
  1991  Honorary Fellow RSNZ 
  1992  Honorary vice President for life, International Guild of Knot Tyers 
  1992  Honorary D.Sc., University of Auckland
  1992  Corresponding Member, Australian Academy of Sciences 
  1993  Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  1993  Honorary D.Sc. University of Wales.
  1999  Elected to US National Academy of Sciences
  2000  Onsager medal of Trondheim University
  2001  Elected as a foreign member to the Norwegian Royal Society of
        Letters and Sciences.
  2002  DCNZM 
  2002  Elected Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society.
  2002  Doctorat Honoris Causa, Universite du Littoral, Cote d'Opale
  2004  Elected vice president, American Mathematical Society. 
  2007  Prix Mondial Nessim Habif

Plenary talks:

  1988  International Association of Mathematical Physicists (Swansea)
  1990  International Congress of Mathematicians (Kyoto)
  1997  International Association of Mathematical Physicists (Brisbane)

Service to Mathematical community:

   Currently or in the past, editor or associate editor of:

    Transactions of the AMS
    Pacific Math Journal
    Annals of Mathematics
    New Zealand Journal of Mathematics
    Advances in Mathematics
    Journal of Operator Theory
    Reviews in Mathematical Physics
    Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics
    Journal of Mathematical Chemistry
    Geometry and Topology
    L'Enseignement Mathematique

    Scientific Advisory Boards:
 
    Fields Institute of Mathematics
    Erwin Schrodinger Institute
    Mathematical Sciences Research Institute(Berkeley)
    Center for Communications Research (USA)
    Institut Henri Poincare
    Miller Institute for Basic Research in Sciences.
    Program committee International Congress of Mathematicians 2006
    

    Director, New Zealand mathematics research Institute.
    Co-director, NZ Institute for mathematics and its applications. 
    Executive committee, IAMP (1991 -1994) 

   
    AMS committees:

    Nominating committee
    Steele Prize committee