Dr Jones is the Director of The Simeon Network, the postgraduate and academic arm of AFES (the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students). Dr Jones earned his PhD in Astrophysics from the University of North Carolina before moving to Australia for his first postdoctoral research position at the University of New South Wales. He subsequently completed a Bachelor of Divinity at Moore Theological College. He is now a member of the Human Research Ethics Committee at UNSW, a member of the Gospel, Society & Culture Committee of the Presbyterian Assembly of New South Wales, and attends Randwick Presbyterian Church with his wife Jenny and their three children.