Anthony P.F. Turner

Professor Anthony (Tony) Turner’s name is synonymous with the field of Biosensors. He joined Linköping University in 2010, to create a new Centre for Biosensors and Bioelectronics, following a 35-year academic career in the UK culminating as Principal of Cranfield University at Silsoe. In 2016, he was awarded the Ukraine’s highest academic honour, the Vernadsky Gold Medal and the Datta Medal by FEBS. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, a Fellow of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry and a Foreign Associate of the USA National Academy of Engineering. He has Higher Doctorates (DSc) from the University of Kent and the University of Bedfordshire, is a Visiting Professor in the UK, Italy, Korea, Japan and China, and has >750 publications and patents (>350 refereed journal papers and reviews) in the field of biosensors and biomimetic sensors with an h-index of 75. He is probably best known for his role in the development of commercial glucose sensors for home-use by people with diabetes, publishing the first textbook on Biosensors in 1987, as Editor-In-Chief of the principal journal in his field, Biosensors & Bioelectronics (Elsevier) and for chairing the World Congress on Biosensors, which he founded in 1990.

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