Tony James (chemist)

Tony D. James FRSC (born 7 October 1964 in Broseley) is a British chemist who is currently Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bath.

He was educated at the University of East Anglia (BSc, 1986) and the University of Victoria (PhD, 1991), and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow 1991-95 (with Seiji. Shinkai in Japan). He was a Royal Society Research Fellow from 1995 to 2000 (University of Birmingham). He has been a visiting professor at Tsukuba, Osaka and Kyushu 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 and is a Hai-Tian (Sea-Sky) Scholar at Dalian University of Technology.

He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2012, received the Daiwa Adrian Prize for developing networks with Japan in 2013 and the Inaugural CASE Prize for establishing and developing networks with China in 2015.

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, Fluorescence Sensor design, Fluorescence Imaging, Theranostics, Chiral recognition; Saccharide recognition, Anion recognition and Sensors for Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS).

He has published two Royal Society of Chemistry books on boronic acids.