Steve Jones is a geneticist and leading science communicator on evolution and genetics. He is a world expert on the genetics of snails and has also studied evolution in fruit flies and humans. However, he is most widely known as a highly successful broadcaster and writer.

He is an ecological geneticist, examining the relationship between habitat and genetic traits such as variation in snail shell colour. Investigating the effect of heat on snails, Steve showed that dark- and light-coloured snails choose to expose themselves to different amounts of sunshine. He is also investigating whether or not there have been changes in snail gene frequency in response to climate change.

Steve has published many popular science books on genetics and evolution and has written and presented a television series on human genetics. He has also advised the BBC on their science reporting. He is a winner of the Royal Society’s Faraday Prize for excellence in popular science communication.