Michael James
Michael was born in Derby, England. He carried out his undergraduate studies and obtained an MChem degree at the University of York in 2013 (including a one-year industrial placement at GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage). Michael stayed in York to undertake his doctoral studies, working on catalytic dearomatisation reactions under the joint supervision of Professor Peter O'Brien and Professor Richard J. K. Taylor. In 2017, he joined the group of Professor Frank Glorius at the University of Muenster as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, where he worked on photocatalytic transformations using visible-light-absorbing Ir(III) complexes.
In 2019, Michael started his independent research programme as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at the University of York. He was then appointed as a Lecturer in Synthetic Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester in 2022.