Dr. James Eills

2011- 2015 Masters in Chemistry, University of Southampton and UC Berkeley

2015 - 2018 PhD in Chemistry, University of Southampton, UK (Thesis advisor: Prof. Malcolm Levitt, FRS)

2018 Research project at Bruker BioSpin, Massachusettes, USA

2018 - 2021 Postdoctoral Researcher - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz & Helmholtz-Institute Mainz, Germany

2022 Freelance Consultant - NVision Imaging Technologies, Ulm, Germany

2022 - 2024 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow - Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

2023 - Research project at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

2024 - Visiting Researcher - NVision Imaging Technologies, Ulm, Germany

Since 2024 - Research Group Leader of the "Hyperpolarization Methods Lab" at IBI-7, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Research articles

M. Gierse, L. Dagys, M. Keim, S. Lucas, F. Josten, M. B. Plenio, I. Schwartz, S. Knecht, J. Eills*, Hyperpolarizing Small Molecules using Parahydrogen and Solid-State Spin Diffusion, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed., e202319341, 2024

J. Eills*, M. W. Mitchell, I. Marco-Rius, M. C. D. Tayler*, Live magnetic observation of parahydrogen hyperpolarization dynamics, arXiv preprint, 2024

J. Eills, M. Azagra, D. Gómez-Cabeza, M. C. D. Tayler, I. Marco-Rius, Polarization losses from the nonadiabatic passage of hyperpolarized solutions through metallic components, J. Magn. Reson. Open, 18, 100144, 2024

J. Eills*, R. Picazo-Frutos, D. Burueva, L. Kovtunova, M. Azagra, I. Marco Rius, D. Budker, I. Koptyug*, Combined Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Hydrogenation with Parahydrogen to Yield Catalyst-Free Solutions of Hyperpolarized [1-¹³C]Succinate, Chem. Commun., 59, 9509-9512, 2023

S. Knecht, J. W. Blanchard, D. Barskiy, E. Cavallari, L. Dagys, E. van Dyke, M. Tsukanov, B. Bliemel, K. Münnemann, S. Aime, F. Reineri, M. H. Levitt, G. Buntkowsky, A. Pines, P. Blümler, D. Budker, J. Eills*, Rapid Hyperpolarization and Purification of the Metabolite Fumarate in Aqueous Solution, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 118 (13), e2025383118, 2021

J. Eills*, E. Cavallari, R. Kircher, G. Di Matteo, C. Carrera, L. Dagys, M. H. Levitt, K. Ivanov, S. Aime, F. Reineri, K. Münnemann, D. Budker, G. Buntkowsky, S. Knecht, Singlet-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed., 60 (12), 6791-98, 2020, Hot Article

D. B. Burueva, J. Eills*, J. W. Blanchard, A. Garcon, R. Picazo‐Frutos, K. V. Kovtunov, I. V. Koptyug, D. Budker, Chemical Reaction Monitoring using Zero-Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Enables Study of Heterogeneous Samples in Metal Containers, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed., 59, 17026-32, 2020

J. Eills*, E. Cavallari, C. Carrera, D. Budker, S. Aime, F. Reineri, Real-Time Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Detection of Fumarase Activity Using Parahydrogen-Hyperpolarized [1-¹³C]Fumarate, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 51, 20209-20214, 2019

Recent reviews

J. Eills*, D. Budker, S. Cavagnero, E. Y. Chekmenev, S. J. Elliott, S. Jannin, A. Lesage, J. Matysik, T. Meersmann, T. Prisner, J. A. Reimer, H. Yang, I. V. Koptyug*, Spin Hyperpolarization in Modern Magnetic Resonance, Chemical Reviews, 2c00534, 2023

J. Eills*, W. Hale, M. Utz*, Synergies between Hyperpolarized NMR and Microfluidics: A Review, Prog. Nucl. Magn. Reson. Spectrosc., 128, 44-69, 2021