Professor Tony James, from the Department of Chemistry at Bath University, has been awarded a 2017 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.
The award recognises scientists of outstanding achievement and provides support to enable them to continue their work in the UK.
Tony has developed a broad interdisciplinary approach to research, with a focus on the development of modular sensors where he has pioneered a range of reporting regimes.
His research is directed towards the development of novel sensors and imaging agents for diseases associated with ageing.