Anya Jones
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Anya Rachel Magaña Jones is an American aerospace engineer who works at the University of California, Los Angeles as a professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering and director of the Separated and Transient Aerodynamics Laboratory. Her research concerns fluid dynamics and aerodynamics. She studies three-dimensional flows that are not in a steady state, as can arise for aircraft in gusty winds or with moving airfoils, both experimentally and theoretically.[1]
Jones is originally from New Orleans.[2] She studied both aeronautical engineering and mechanical engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating magna cum laude in 2004, and received a master's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006.[3] There, she was involved in the Silent Aircraft Initiative of the Cambridge–MIT Institute, leading her to continue her studies in England at the University of Cambridge,[4] in Fitzwilliam College.[5] She completed her Ph.D. in 2010 with the dissertation Unsteady low Reynolds number aerodynamics of a waving wing,[3] under the supervision of Holger Babinsky.[4]
While at Cambridge, she also competed for Cambridge as a double blue in fencing and rowing, including a seat on the 2010 Blue Boat.[4]
She joined the University of Maryland, College Park as an assistant professor of aerospace engineering in 2010, and was promoted to associate professor in 2017 and full professor in 2021.[3] In 2024 she moved to her present position at the University of California, Los Angeles.[3][6]