Eriita Jones obtained a PhD in Astrophysics from the Australian National University in 2012. She has since undertaken a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, and is currently working at the University of South Australia. Her research interests are in searching for liquid water and habitable environments on Mars (and elsewhere in the solar system), through multivariate statistical analyses of remote sensing data, and thermal modelling.