Rate My Professor Alison Nordon

Professor Alison Nordon is a Professor in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, part of the Faculty of Science. She earned a BSc (Hons) degree in Chemistry and a PhD in solid-state NMR spectroscopy from the University of Durham. Upon completing her PhD, she moved to the University of Strathclyde, where she held research fellow and senior research fellow posts with the Centre for Process Analytics and Technology (CPACT). Between 2004 and 2012, she was a recipient of the Royal Society University Research Fellowship. She joined the academic staff of the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry in 2006 and advanced to her current professorial role. In 2022, Professor Nordon received a Long Service Award for 25 years of service at the University. She serves as Technical Director of CPACT, contributes to the Centre for Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation (CMAC), and is a co-investigator in the EPSRC MediForge Hub.

Her research centers on the development of spectroscopic techniques—including optical, acoustic, low-field nuclear magnetic resonance, near- and mid-infrared, and THz Raman spectroscopies—in conjunction with multivariate data analysis for online monitoring of chemical processes. This encompasses advances in measurement techniques for process analytics, procedures to extract chemical and physical information from spectra, and applications across industries such as pharmaceuticals, nuclear fuel reprocessing, alternative proteins, and food manufacturing, scaling from lab to full production. Professor Nordon has produced over 130 research works, garnering more than 3,100 citations. Key publications include "Quality by digital design in action: a workflow for crystallisation and isolation" (International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2025), "Compositional analysis of alternative protein blends using near and mid-infrared spectroscopy coupled with conventional and machine learning algorithms" (Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2025), "Calibration free approaches for rapid polymorph discrimination via low frequency (THz) Raman spectroscopy" (Chemical Communications, 2024), and "Quality by digital design to accelerate sustainable medicines development" (International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 2025). Her work has advanced process analytical technology and digital design in manufacturing.