Davies-Jones received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Birmingham in 1964 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1969. From 1969 to 1970 Davies-Jones did a post-doc at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) before embarking on a long career at NSSL in 1970. He retired from NSSL in 2009 where he remains an emeritus researcher and continues to publish some papers. Davies-Jones is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Davies-Jones earned the NOAA Distinguished Career Award and in 2018 the Nikolai Dotzek Lifetime Achievement Award by the European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL).Lifetime Achievement Nikolai Dotzek Award 2018 for Bob Davies-Jones
