Dr Matt Jones

Professor of Quaternary Science

Phone: +44 (0) 115 846 8406

Email: matthew.jones@nottingham.ac.uk

Matt leads the Palaeobenchmarking Resilient Agricultural Systems project and is a member of the Future Food leadership team. 

Matt’s research focuses on understanding changing water availability and how changing environments have impacted human populations, and vice versa, over the last 20,000 years. Geographically he has research foci in Southwest Asia and Mexico. 

He specialises in the use of oxygen isotopes as tracers of the hydrological cycle, especially when preserved in lake sediments, and how these can be used to quantify past changes in water availability. His interests in changing hydrological conditions have led to him working on archaeological projects in Jordan and Iran to provide an environmental context for past human populations in these regions.