Portrait of Gesa Jones

Volkswagen Foundation

Gesa Jones

  • 2024
  • Speaker
  • Female Science Talents

Gesa Jones focuses on content creation and science communication and works as editorial coordinator in the communications department of the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany’s largest private non-profit science funding organisation, which is, despite its name, not affiliated with the car manufacturer Volkswagen. Gesa is a certified foundation manager (Deutsche Stiftungsakademie) and studied biochemistry at the Universities of Potsdam and Copenhagen. She was a fellow at the HPI School of Design Thinking and a mentee in the science journalism program of the Robert Bosch Foundation.