Alastair Florence, PhD

CMAC Research Hub, Strathclyde University
Professor and Centre Director
Professor Alastair Florence is Director of the EPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub in Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC), leading the multidisciplinary academic team as well as partnerships with NPL and leading international groups through I2APM. He is PI on the associated CMAC Doctoral Training Centre that has to date recruited over 50 PhDs across the collaborative academic network and also leads the new world-class CMAC National Facility within the Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC) at Strathclyde. The facility offers access for academic and industrial users to state-of-the art processing, analysis and characterisation facilities. His research interests lie in the science and technology associated with continuous crystallisation, physical form control and advanced characterisation of pharmaceuticals. This spans polymorphism, solvate, co-crystal and salt formation and structural investigations of amorphous systems. Alastair has extensive experience in the formation of pharmaceutical particles in continuous processes using a range of technologies as part of the CMAC programme.