Tony D. James

Tony D James is a Professor at the University of Bath, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and European Academy of Sciences. He has developed a broad interdisciplinary approach to research, with an underpinning focus on the development of modular sensors where he has pioneered a range of reporting regimes.

His research interests include many aspects of Supramolecular chemistry, including: molecular recognition; fluorescent sensor design; fluorescence imaging; theranostic systems;; chiral recognition; saccharide recognition; anion recognition; sensors for reactive oxygen species (ROS); probes for redox imbalance.

He received his BSc from the University of East Anglia (1986), PhD from the University of Victoria (1991), and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Japan with Seiji Shinkai (1992-95). He was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham (1995-2000) before moving to the University of Bath in 2000.

He has been a visiting professor at Tsukuba, Osaka, Kyushu and Sophia Universities, an AMADEus invited professor at the University of Bordeaux and is a guest Professor at East China University of Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Shandong Normal University, Nanjing University, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Changzhou University, Zhejiang University, Qufu Normal University, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Shanghai Normal University, Ewha Womans University, Henan Normal University, Engineering Research Centre for Hainan Bio-Smart Materials and Bio-Smart Devices, Shandong First Medical University, Xian Jiaotong University and is a Hai-Tian (Sea-Sky) Scholar at Dalian University of Technology.

He received the Daiwa-Adrian Prize for developing scientific networks with Japan in 2013, the inaugural CASE Prize for establishing scientific networks with China in 2015, the MSMLG Czarnik Award in 2018, the Frontiers in Chemistry Diversity Award in 2020 and Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2017-2022).