Professor Alastair Florence
海角论坛 Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
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 海角论坛 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.
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 20/10/2025
- Recipient
- 13/5/2025
- Recipient
- 2024
- Recipient
- 2024
- Recipient
- 25/10/2018
- Recipient
- 9/2004
Publications
- Pickles Thomas, Nandiwale Kakasaheb, Mehta Bhavik A, Sambu Sammy, , ,
- npj Computational Materials (2026)
- , , , , Robertson Murray, , , , , ,
- 23rd International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization (2026)
- Diaz Laura Pereira, Marchal St茅phanie, Kroll Paul, Hofstetter Albert, Lang Moritz, Piccione Patrick M, , ,
- International Journal of Pharmaceutics Vol 698 (2026)
- , , Hou Peter, , , , , Portela Victor, Boulay Quentin, Thiolliere Roland, Stark Ashley, Schwartz Jean-Jacques, Guerin Jerome, Maloney Andrew GP, Moldovan Alexandru A, Reynolds Gavin, Mantanus J茅r么me, Clark Catriona, Chapman Paul, ,
- Nature Communications Vol 17 (2026)
- , , , , Robertson Murray,
- 10th World Congress on Particle Technology (2026)
- Pickles Thomas, Baird Sterling G, ,
- Matter Vol 9 (2026)
Professional Activities
- Participant
- 6/10/2025
- Contributor
- 1/10/2025
- Participant
- 18/9/2025
- Participant
- 10/9/2025
- Participant
- 21/8/2025
- Speaker
- 11/8/2025
Projects
- Markl, Daniel (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2026
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Johnston, Blair (Co-investigator) Prostredny, Martin (Co-investigator) Paterson, Fraser (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Brown, Cameron (Co-investigator) Awan, Muhammad Asfand Yar (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- Markl, Daniel (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Co-investigator) Johnston, Blair (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Co-investigator) Johnston, Blair (Co-investigator) Markl, Daniel (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2025
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Co-investigator) Johnston, Blair (Co-investigator) Markl, Daniel (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2025
Contact
Professor
Alastair
Florence
海角论坛 Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Email: alastair.florence@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4877