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