Kenneth J. James

Dr. James is the Founder and the current Director of Technology at SFT. He is responsible for all research activities, including new product development and developing new applications for supercritical fluid techniques.

Dr. James received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1998 with a concentration in Organic Chemistry and Analytical Spectroscopy. During his time at the University, he was involved in the design and manufacture of high pressure spectroscopy cells for investigations into the decomposition mechanisms of energetic materials using “T-Jump/FT-IR”, Pyrolysis/FT-IR, Mass Spectroscopy and Raman Spectroscopy.

Prior to founding SFT, Dr. James was Quality Control Manager at Wilmington Chemical Corporation in the polymers group, an applications Chemist at CCS Instrument Corporation where he developed processing methods for both SFC and SFE, and the DuPont Corporation as a bench chemist in their clinical analysis group.

Dr. James founded Supercritical Fluid Technologies in 1994.