Professor Alastair Florence
Strathclyde 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 糖心视频 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
- 25/10/2018
- Recipient
- 9/2004
Publications
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- Nature Communications (2026)
- , Baird Sterling G, ,
- Matter (2026)
- , , , , Perkins Mark J, Langford Vaughan S, ,
- International Journal of Pharmaceutics Vol 691 (2026)
- Warzecha Monika, Yerragunta Manasa, , Vekilov Peter G
- Crystal Growth and Design Vol 26, pp. 934-943 (2026)
- , Abrahms茅n-Alami Susanna, Clark Catriona, D枚rr Frederik, , Ketolainen Jarkko, Lindow Morten, Mantanus J茅r么me, Rantanen Jukka, Reynolds Gavin, Robertson Amy,
- European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Vol 220 (2026)
- Houson Ian, , , Robertson Murray, Turner Alice J, , Osman Amal, Galindo Amparo, Dunn Andrew S, , Benyahia Brahim, , , Price Chris J, Reilly Chris D, Adjiman Claire S, Jackson George, , , , , McGinty John, , Smith Kenneth, , , , Pathan Momina, Rajoub Nazer, , , , Urwin Stephanie J, Bernet Thomas, , Li Wei,
- International Journal of Pharmaceutics Vol 686 (2025)
Professional Activities
- Participant
- 6/10/2025
- Participant
- 18/9/2025
- Participant
- 10/9/2025
- Participant
- 21/8/2025
- Speaker
- 11/8/2025
- Participant
- 9/6/2025
Projects
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Johnston, Blair (Co-investigator) Prostredny, Martin (Co-investigator) Paterson, Fraser (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- Markl, Daniel (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2026
- Markl, Daniel (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Co-investigator) Johnston, Blair (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Brown, Cameron (Co-investigator) Awan, Muhammad Asfand Yar (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
- 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
Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences
Email: alastair.florence@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4877