Tony D. James

Tony D. James is Professor of chemistry at the University of Bath and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 1986 he obtained a BSc degree from the University of East Anglia, in 1991 was awarded a PhD by the University of Victoria, and from 1991 to 1995 was a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Seiji Shinkai in Kyushu, Japan. After this he became a University Royal Society Research Fellow based initially at the University of Birmingham before relocating to the University of Bath in 2000. He was a visiting professor at Kyushu, Osaka and Tsukuba Universities, an AMADEus invited professor at the University of Bordeaux and is a guest Professor at Xiamen University, Shandong Normal University, East China University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University and is a Hai-Tian (Sea-Sky) Scholar at Dalian University of Technology. In 2013 he was part of a team awarded a Daiwa Adrian Prize and in 2015 received the Inaugural Catalysis and Sensing for our Environment (CASE) Prize. His supramolecular chemistry interests include molecular recognition, self-assembly and chemosensor design. His groups fundamental research findings into glucose sensing and recognition are being translated by long-term collaborators at Glysure Ltd. into point-of-care sensing devices for use in hospitals.

John S. Fossey

John S. Fossey is a senior lecturer in synthetic chemistry at the University of Birmingham and is presently a Royal Society Industry Fellow, working closely with Syngenta. In 2000 he obtained an MChem degree from Cardiff University, and in early 2004 was awarded a PhD degree by Queen Mary University London. He then became a JSPS postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Tokyo, working with Professor Shū Kobayashi on asymmetric catalysis. After this, he became a research and teaching fellow at the University of Bath and in 2008 moved to the University of Birmingham to begin his first permanent academic position. He was visiting Professor at Henan Normal University and is guest Professor at East China University of Science and Technology. In 2013 he was part of a team awarded a Daiwa Adrian Prize. His research interests are underpinned by the theme of Catalysis and Recognition for Health and Sustainability, and he enjoys unravelling and exploiting inter- and intramolecular interactions.

Meng Li

Meng Li is a PhD student at the University of Bath. She obtained her BSc in 2011 from the East China University of Science and Technology, and joined Professor Weihong Zhu’s group at ECUST and now works with Professor Tony D. James as a PhD student at the University of Bath. She has been a visiting student for two months at Ewha Womans University in South Korea (with Professor Juyoung Yoon). Her research interests consist of many aspects of supramolecular chemistry and electrochemistry, including molecular recognition, sensor design and electrochemical sensing.