Course Tutors

Jonathan began his career as a medicinal chemist working in neuroscience at Merck Sharp and Dohme for a total of six years either side of a PhD at Cambridge, before moving to Zeneca (now AstraZeneca) as a process development chemist in 1996. During his 15 years at AstraZeneca he worked on pharmaceutical projects at all stages of development from early route selection, large-scale lab and pilot plant scale-up, through to established manufacturing processes. He also applied new technologies to chemical process development, including microwave synthesis. In 2011, with AZ colleagues, he founded CatSci Ltd, an SME CRO. As Technical Director he was responsible for the development and optimisation of scale-up processes for a range of customers from across the wider chemical industry. In 2020, he left CatSci to join Scientific Update as an Associate tutor on their training courses.