Personal statement
Director of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Continuous Manufacturing and Crystallisation (CMAC) and associated 45 PhD Doctoral Training Centre. Leads the new world-class CMAC National Facility within the Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) at the University of Strathclyde offering access to academic and industrial users to state-of-the art processing, analysis and characterisations facilties and support. Expertise in crystallisation and physical form control and characterisation of pharmaceuticals spanning polymorphism, solvate, co-crystal and salt formation and studies of amorphous systems. Extensive experience in the formation of pharmaceutical particles in continuous processes using a range of technologies as part of the CMAC programme. Interests also in the development and application of new technologies to control and monitor crystallisation and pharmaceutical solids.
Approaches for the characterisation of particles are also widely used and physical analysis of crystalline pharmaceuticals with a focus on the influence of crystallisation processes on structure and critical pharmaceutically relevant attributes that dictates product performance. Exploitation of X-ray powder diffraction techniques for phase identification, structure determination from powder diffraction data and in-situ phase surveys including local order using variable-temperature X-ray powder diffraction are key areas.
Has published over 120 peer reviewed research papers in these areas and currently supervises a large multidisciplinary research group including pharmacists, chemists and chemical engineers.
Professional activities
- Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Growth and Assembly
- Invited speaker
- 23/6/2019
- Centre for International Manufacturing, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge
- Visiting researcher
- 21/6/2019
- MMIP Annual Conference
- Participant
- 20/6/2019
- EPSRC Hub Directors Meeting (Event)
- Member
- 11/6/2019
- Continuous Manufacturing Research: Progress & Pitfalls
- Speaker
- 26/3/2019
- Made Smarter for the Process Industries Workshop
- Participant
- 8/3/2019
more professional activities
Projects
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Pereira Diaz, Laura
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Johnston, Blair (Co-investigator) Pereira Diaz, Laura (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2022
- measure X-PDF data and use PDF modelling and calculations to gain understanding of amorphous materials _ student placement
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator)
- 02-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
- Master Development Manufacturing Services Agreement CMAC National Facility NF179
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Price, Chris John (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2019
- Pressure-dependent In-Situ Monitoring of Granular Materials
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Halbert, Gavin (Co-investigator) Markl, Daniel (Co-investigator) McArthur, Stephen (Co-investigator) Nordon, Alison (Co-investigator) Oswald, Iain (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2022
- Takeda 2017/18 Proprietary Project
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2020
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Johnston, Jenna
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Halbert, Gavin (Co-investigator) Johnston, Jenna (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2022
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Address
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Technology Innovation Centre
Technology Innovation Centre
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