Stuart Williams is a lead troubleshooter of analytical chemistry and organic chemistry issues, impurity identification, pharmaceutical GMP analysis, technology transfers and OOS investigations.
He has also worked in held leadership roles in pharmaceutical, petroleum, minerals, and ecotoxicology testing as a key innovator and problem solver. He has managed teams, projects and trained others in HPLC, GC, LCMS, GCMS, IR, NMR and many other techniques.
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Chartered Chemist
PhD in Organic Chemistry (Bristol)
BSc Hons (1st) in Chemistry with Analytical Chemistry and Toxicology
Pharmaceutical technology transfers between global sites.
Process chemistry troubleshooting for transferred processes.
Analytical document support for GMP method transfers.
Writing and proof-reading of Health Authority GMP documents.
Policy maker support for GMP SOP's, particularly analytical method validation (inc. ANVISA) and transfer.
Ghost peaks in gradient HPLC expert advisor.
Ecotoxicology analytical method fast design.
Stuart 's career started in pharmaceuticals for AstraZeneca process R&D for several years, before moving to Venezuela to become the Leader of Molecular Characterization in the national oil company PDVSA for 4 years. Returning to the UK, he worked for a year in mineral project analysis and then 4 years running a GLP analytical team in a CRO ecotoxicology function. After this, back in pharmaceuticals in Novartis (UK) as the Analytical Science and Technology lead for 7 years, and then formed the Dove Analytics Ltd consultancy in 2021. The company sponsors several children in developing countries through Compassion UK.
Ghost peaks in gradient HPLC, column screening and selectivity for method development, fast UPLC method design.
Mass spectrometry interpretation and training from first principles (extra-library compounds).
Organic chemistry reaction mechanism studies for process understanding and troubleshooting.
Polymorphism, pharmaceutical stability studies and OOS investigations.
GC method design and troubleshooting.
LCMS QQQ and GCMS method design and interpretation.
GMP method validation SOP policy and writing.
Spanish translation for chemistry and analysis.
