James is a Lecturer in Robotics at the University of Leeds and an Honorary Lecturer in the Hamlyn Centre, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London.

He received an MEng in Acoustical Engineering at the ISVR at the University of Southampton and completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering at University College London in 2015. There he continued his work as an EPSRC Doctoral Research Fellow, developing Electrical Impedance Tomography methods for brain imaging as part of Prof. David Holder’s Neurophysiology lab.

Clinical studies during this time brought into sharp focus the benefits that good, open and reproducible engineering can have for patients and strengthened his desire to translate his work into clinical practice. Since 2018 he has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, seeking to develop new sensor technologies for surgery. In 2020 he was awarded an Imperial College Research Fellowship to develop inflatable structures with integrated multimodal sensing for MIS

His research interests include:

Electrical Impedance Tomography
Surgical Robotics
Soft sensors
Implantable and wearable sensors
Open source biomedical devices and methods
Fixing things, more than likely after having broken them in the first place. Particularly 3D printers.