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
- EUFEPS Annual Meeting 2021
- Chair
- 7/6/2021
- Bracco Science Day
- Speaker
- 1/6/2021
- Pandemic Preparedness Partnership Conference
- Participant
- 20/4/2021
- International Symposium on Continuous Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals
- Chair
- 18/2/2021
- Consortium on Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Japan
- Speaker
- 17/2/2021
- EPSRC Physics of Life Mid-Term Evaluation
- Member
- 11/12/2020
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Projects
- International Collaboration for Digital Design and Manufacture of Amorphous Pharmaceuticals
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Brown, Cameron (Co-investigator) Johnston, Blair (Co-investigator) Markl, Daniel (Co-investigator) Robertson, John (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
- CONTIMED
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator)
- 10-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2022
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Tanveer, Saadia
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Oswald, Iain (Co-investigator) Tanveer, Saadia (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2025
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Bartkowiak, Patrycja
- Markl, Daniel (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Co-investigator) Bartkowiak, Patrycja (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2024
- Made Smarter Innovation: Digital Medicines Manufacturing Research Centre (DM2)
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Johnston, Blair (Co-investigator) Markl, Daniel (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 28-Jan-2025
- CONTIMED High Growth Spinout Program
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Halbert, Gavin (Co-investigator) Robertson, John (Co-investigator)
- 22-Jan-2020 - 22-Jan-2021
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Address
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Technology Innovation Centre
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