Tony Turner (academic)

Anthony Peter Francis Turner (Tony Turner)
Tony Turner
Nationality	English
Scientific career
Fields	Biosensors
Institutions	Linköping University

Professor Anthony Peter Francis Turner, FRSC (born 1950), usually known as Tony Turner, is an English academic specialising in the fields of biosensors and bioelectronics.

Anthony P. F. Turner is Full Professor of Biosensors and Bioelectronics and Head of the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre at Linköping University, in Sweden. He is an Emeritus Professor of Cranfield University in England, where he was previously the Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology (until 2010) and Principal of Cranfield University at Silsoe. He remained Innovations Director for Cranfield Ventures Ltd (until 2014), with responsibility for licensing and spin offs from Cranfield University.

In 1996 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, which awarded him the Theophilus Redwood Medal in 2011 for his outstanding contribution to analytical science and especially for "his pioneering work which has led to the development of home blood glucose monitoring technology". He received a higher doctorate from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 2001 for his "outstanding contribution to biosensors" and was presented with an honorary doctorate for his "contribution to higher education" by Bedfordshire University in 2008. He was made a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering in the USA, in 2006, for his exceptional contribution to "glucose sensors, environmental monitors and synthetic recognition molecules" and elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) in 2013. In 2016, he was awarded the Ukraine’s highest academic distinction, the Vernadsky Gold Medal from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, for his "outstanding achievements in the field of bioelectronics", and in the same year, the Datta Medal by the Federation of European Biochemical Societies.

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