Professor Colin Raston

Professor Colin Raston

Professor of Clean Technology
School of Chemical & Physical Sciences

Biography:

Professor Colin Raston FRACI CChem FRSC is a South Australia Premier's Professorial Research Fellow in Clean Technology. He completed a PhD under the guidance of Professor Allan White, and after postdoctoral studies with Professor Michael Lappert at the University of Sussex, he was appointed a lecturer at The University of Western Australia (1981) then to Chairs of Chemistry at Griffith University (1988), Monash University (1995), The University of Leeds (2001), and The University of Western Australia (2003). He is a former President, Queensland Branch President, and Chair of the Inorganic Division, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. His current research covers clean technology and green chemistry, process intensification, nanotechnology and self-assembly, and is currently on the editorial advisory editorial boards of the journals Green Chemistry and RSC Advances (Royal Society of Chemistry), and on the editorial board of Crystal Growth and Design(American Chemical Society).

Qualifications:

• BSc (Hons) The University of Western Australia
• PhD The University of Western Australia
• DSc Griffith University

Honours, awards and grants:

Awards

• Australian Research Council (ARC) Senior Research Fellowship (1993 and 1998)
• Burrows Award Inorganic Division Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) (1994)
• Citation Queensland Branch RACI (1994)
• HG Smith Award RACI (1996)
• Green Chemistry Challenge Award RACI (2002)
• Pacific Northwestern Inorganic Lecturer Award (2004)
• ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship (2005 and 2010)
• Leighton Memorial Medal RACI (2006)
• Living Luminary, RACI (2011)
• South Australia Premier's Professorial Research Fellow in Clean Technology (2013)

Current and recent grants

• ARCDiscovery, 2010-2014, C. L. Raston and F. Rosie (INRS, Montreal), 'Integrated approach to functional carbon based materials'.
• NHMRC, L. Y. Lim and C. L.Raston, 2012-2014, ‘Phosphonatedcalixarenes for the targeted intracellular delivery of anticancer agents’.
• ARC Linkage, C. L. Rastonand K. S. Iyer (UWA), 2012-2014, ‘Application of microfluidics in engineering functional noble-metal nano-materials’, with The Perth Mint.
• ARC Linkage, C. L. Raston, C. Bond, S. Dunlop, K. S. Iyer (UWA), and F. Wood (Royal Perth Hospital), 2011-2013, ‘Processing pearl nacre for bio-nano-technology’, with Pearl Technologies.
• ARC Discovery, C. L.Raston and K. Stubbs (UWA), 2013-2015 (UWA), ‘Controlling the organization of matterusing vortex fluidics’.
• SA Premier’s ProfessorialResearch Fellow in Clean Technology, 2013-2016.

Key responsibilities:

• Research and research training, and teaching
• Advancing clean technology

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