Drug Discovery and Development Technology Centre (DDTC)
Faculty of Pharmacy
P.O. Box 56 (Viikinkaari 5 E)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND

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currently:
Visiting Research Fellow
School of Pharmacy
University of Otago
P.O. Box 913
Dunedin 9054
NEW ZEALAND

Ph: +64 (0)3 479 7324
Fax: +64 (0)3 479 7034

Clare Strachan’s main research interests involve the application of traditional and novel spectroscopic methods for characterisation of active pharmaceutical excipients and drugs. In particular, she focuses on understanding solid state transformations in APIs and dosage forms. The main spectroscopic techniques used are infrared, near-infrared, Raman, terahertz pulsed spectroscopy and second harmonic generation. Analysis of these data is supported by various chemometrics approaches, both qualitative and quantitative, and computational chemistry methods including ab initio calculations. She also has significant experience with other physical characterisation methods including x-ray powder diffraction, microscopy and thermal methods.

After registration as a pharmacist, she completed a PhD in 2005 at the University of Otago, New Zealand entitled “Spectroscopic investigation and quantitation of polymorphism and crystallinity of pharmaceutical materials” which involved the use of Raman spectroscopy, terahertz pulsed spectroscopy and second harmonic generation. She then took up a postdoctoral position with Prof Jukka Rantanen in Helsinki, and subsequently became a University Researcher and Group Leader there. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Pharmacy, University of Otago.

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