
		Robert S Paton Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry Colorado State University 1301 Center Ave Ft. Collins, CO 80523-1872 Office: Chemistry Research 313 \| Phone: +1 (970) 791-7746 Email: rpaton_at_colostate.edu CV Angewandte Author Profile

Bio

After graduating top of his year in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, Rob obtained his PhD in 2008 with Jonathan Goodman in Cambridge working on the automated parameterization of molecular mechanics methods to study stereoselective C-C bond formation. In 2008 he took up an independent Junior Research Fellowship at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and courtesy of an HPC-Europa award in 2009 spent time in the group of Feliu Maseras at ICIQ, Spain.

As recipient of the UK’s’ Fulbright-AstraZeneca Fellowship and a Science Fellowship from the Royal Commission of the Exhibition of 1851, Rob conducted postdoctoral research with K. N. Houk at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2009-2010. In 2010 Rob was appointed to a University Lectureship and Tutorial Fellowship at Oxford, progressing to Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry in 2014. In 2018 he moved to Colorado State University as an Associate Professor. Rob has received the MGMS Silver Jubilee Prize, the RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize and an ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.

Awards and Honors

2018 Cell: Trends in Chemistry Editorial Board
2017 Nature Journals Outstanding Peer Reviewer
2016 Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator
2015 ACS OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award
2015 RSC Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize
2015 Thieme Chemistry Journal Award
2014 MGMS Silver-Jubilee Prize
2014 ACS Organic Young Investigator Award
2013 Chemical Structure Association Trust grant
2009-2010 UK Fulbright-AstraZeneca Distinguished Research Scholar
2009-2012 Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Science Research Fellowship

Invited Talks

Sept 4 2019: Mechanistic Homogeneous Catalysis – A Meeting between Theory and Experiment, Stockholm, Sweden
July 11 2019: ISTCP X, Tromsø, Norway
Jan 16 2019: University of Vienna, Austria
November 30 2018: University of Colorado, Denver, USA
July 3 2018: Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea
July 1 2018: Pukyong National University, South Korea
June 13 2018: Computational Catalysis for Sustainable Chemistry, ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain
June 10 2018: 37th Reaction Mechanisms Conference, University of British Columbia, Canada
May 15 2018: 2nd International Symposium on Organic Reaction Mechanism, Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School, China
April 4 2018: Predictive Catalysis 2018, Girona, Spain
March 14 2018: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
February 9 2018: Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA
June 15 2017: 11th EUCO-TCC, Barcelona, Spain
June 7 2017: Challenges in Computational Homogeneous Catalysis, Stockholm, Sweden
April 7 2017: V ENEQUI, University of Coimbra, Portugal
February 22 2017: University of Cologne, Germany
October 26 2016: University of Liverpool, UK
August 5 2016: KAIST, South Korea
July 6 2016: IX International School On Organometallic Chemistry, San Sebastian, Spain
June 22 2016: ECS 2016, University of Strathclyde, UK
June 8 2016: RCOM9, Marseilles, France
June 8 2016: RSC Awards Symposium, Queens University Belfast, UK
April 29 2016: Hans Suschitzky Symposium, University of Salford, UK
March 23 2016: RSC South East Regional Meeting, University of East Anglia, UK
March 14 2016: UK-Japanese Symposium on Asymmetric Catalysis, University of Manchester, UK
February 3 2016: Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
February 2 2016: Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
February 1 2016: Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
December 7 2015: Department of Chemistry, Warwick University, UK
December 2 2015: Department of Chemistry, Heriot-Watt University, UK
November 11 2015: Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK
October 29 2015: University of Geneva, Switzerland
October 10 2015: Department of Chemistry, POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
September 3 2015: International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis, Evora, Portugal
August 27 2015: Colorado State University, USA
July 16 2015: NSCCS Computational Workshop for Synthetic Chemists, Imperial College London, UK
May 21 2015: University of Helsinki, Finland
March 15 2015: Computational Molecular Science, Warwick, UK
February 27 2015: ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain
February 24 2015: Imperial College London, UK
February 4 2015: RWTH Aachen, Germany
August 10 2014: ACS Organic Division Young Investigators Award Symposium, San Francisco, USA
February 27 2014: RSC South-West Regional Meeting - Oxford, UK
December 16 2013: University of California, Los Angeles, USA
October 9 2013: University College London, UK
August 8 2013: Transatlantic Frontiers of Chemistry - Kloster Seeon, Germany
July 10 2013: Asia-Pacific Conference of Theoretical/Computational Chemistry - Gyeongju, South Korea
April 26 2013: UK Young Chemists 2013 - Imperial College London, UK
March 26 2013: Seoul National University, South Korea
February 26 2013: University of Bristol, UK
January 16 2013: LCC University of Toulouse, France
June 22 2012: Quantum Mechanics and Molecular Dynamics of Chemical and Biological Reactivity, UCLA, USA
March 20 2012: University of Birmingham, UK
January 26 2011: University of Nottingham, UK
January 5 2011: United States Food and Drug Administration - Irvine, USA