After completing his PhD at King’s College London in 1993, Jim undertook two postdoctoral fellowships, firstly in Prof Eiichi Kimura’s group in Hiroshima University, Japan (1993-4) and then in Nobel Prize winner Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn’s group at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France (1994-5). In 1995, he returned to the UK to take up a Lectureship in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Exeter. In 2005, Jim moved to the University of Birmingham and in 2009 commenced his EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, which will run until 2014.

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