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