Tony James

Tony D James is a Professor at the University of Bath and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. 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 (1991-95). He was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham (1995-2000) before moving to the University of Bath in 2001.

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 and is a Hai-Tian (Sea-Sky) Scholar at Dalian University of Technology.

He has published over 424 publications, including two books, 9 book chapters and 413 papers in international peer reviewed journals. He is also the named inventor on 25 international patents. He has delivered 255 invited lectures within the UK and internationally. Citation statistics indicate that one of his publications has been cited over 1,000 times, four over 500, nine over 400, sixteen over 300, twenty-six over 200 times, forty-four over 100, and 126 over 50, with a total of > 23,401 citations at a frequency of >55 citations per article. He has an h-index of 81 (ORCID 0000-0002-4095-2191).

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). He was listed by Clarivate as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2022.

Editor for Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical (Since 2022)

Specialty Chief Editor Supramolecular Chemistry, Frontiers in Chemistry (Since 2017)

Member of Editorial Board of Frontiers in Chemical Science and Engineering (Since 2019)

Member of Editorial Board of Acta Materia Medica (Since 2021)

Member of Editorial Advisory Board of Tetrahedron Chem (Since 2021)

Member of Editorial Board of BMC Chemistry (Since 2019)

Member of Editorial Board of Supramolecular Chemistry (Since 2013)

Member of Editorial Board of Chemistry Central (2007-2015)

Member of Editorial Board of Open Organic Chemistry (2007-2010)

Section Editor for Organic Chemistry with Chemistry Central (2010-2015)