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Robert S PatonAssociate Professor, Department of ChemistryColorado State University1301 Center AveFt. Collins, CO 80523-1872Office: Chemistry Research 313 | Phone: +1 (970) 791-7746 Email: rpaton_at_colostate.eduCVAngewandte 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