Matthew Jones, Ph.D.
Sr. Manager, Crystallization, Pharma Services
Linz, Austria
Key roles and responsibilities
- Subject matter expert and head of crystallization, leads a group of three specialists at Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Linz site in Austria
- Provide consulting and support of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) sites in Regensburg, Germany and Greenville, SC and scientific oversight of Thermo Fisher’s solid state lab in Florence, SC
Professional highlights
- Highly knowledgeable in solid state chemistry and crystallization process development with over twelve years experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including working for AstraZeneca
- Developed numerous crystallization processes for small molecule APIs for isolation, purification and particle engineering
- Guided the modernization and recruitment of experts for Thermo Fisher’s solid state analytical laboratory in Florence, SC, establishing a state-of-the-art facility
- Author or co-author of over fifty scientific publications and two patents
- Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society
- Assistant professor at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany
Education
- Habilitation (higher doctorate) in chemical engineering from MartinLuther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
- Doctor of Philosophy from the University of London, University College, U.K.
Scientific expertise
- Crystallization process development, small molecules and biological macromolecules
- Particle engineering
- Downstream processes (solid-liquid separation and drying)
- Solid state chemistry and solid state analysis