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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and from 2009 to 2014 held an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship on Functional DNA Assemblies.