James in an organic geochemist specialising in paleoclimatology. His research develops and uses molecular tools to reconstruct past environmental conditions and addresses two key themes: (1) Developing new quantitative paleoclimate proxies; (2) Holocene and Cenozoic climate evolution. He has published >45 peer-reviewed papers since 2004 in ISI-listed journals or special book volumes, with an increasing number of papers and citations per year. Publications have been in leading multidisciplinary journals (Nature, Nature Geoscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), leading general geoscience journals (e.g. Earth and Planetary Science Letters), and the leading specialist journals (all Q1 journals) in paleoclimatology and geochemistry (e.g. Quaternary Science Reviews, Geochemica Cosmochemica Acta, Organic Geochemistry). In recent years, he has participated in major technical breakthroughs and led the publishing of the first biomarker based paleoclimate reconstructions from stalagmites and ice-cores. James has a unique breadth of experience and is the first organic geochemist to have published paleoclimate reconstructions from all the main paleoclimate archives (marine & lake cores, ice-cores, speleothems).