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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2018-03-13 human Helen Cohn updated 2026-03-24 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006003b.htm person Raston Colin Llewellyn AO FAA AACR2 Chemist Colin Raston is renowned for his research into clean technology and green chemistry. His work includes process intensification, nanotechnology and self assembly. He has over 600 publications and holds patents on fullerene, nanoparticles, calixarenes, carbon nanotube separation, microfluidics and surface technology. Raston was the lead inventor Vortex Fluidic Device, a machine that unravels proteins and has applications in a wide range of fields from improving the potency of anti-cancer drugs to the production of biofuels. Demonstrating that the machine could be used to partially 'unboil' an egg, Raston and his team won an Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015. 1981 1987 Career position - Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Western Australia 1988 1995 Career position - Professor of Chemistry, Griffith University 1991 1993 Career position - Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology, Griffith University 1992 1993 Career position - President, Queensland Branch, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1993 1993 Award - Senior Research Fellow, Australian Research Council 1994 1994 Award - Burrows Award, Inorganic Chemistry Division, Royal Australian Chemistry Institute 1995 1996 Career position - Vice-President, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1995 2000 Career position - Professor of Chemistry, Monash University 1995 2000 Career position - Chair, Research Committee, Department of Chemistry, Monash University 1996 1996 Career position - Chair, 17th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Brisbane 1996 1996 Award - H. G. Smith Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1996 1997 Career position - President, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1998 1998 Award - Senior Research Fellow, Australian Research Council 1998 2000 Career position - Chair, Inorganic Chemistry Division, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 2000 2000 Career position - Established Centre for Green Chemistry, Monash University 2001 2002 Career position - Chair of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Leeds, United Kingdom 2002 2002 Award - Green Chemistry Challenge Award, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 2002 2006 Career position - Chair, Editorial Board, Green Chemistry 2003 2005 Career position - Professor of Chemistry, University of Western Australia 2005 2005 Award - Professorial Fellowship, Australian Research Council 2005 2009 Career position - Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences, University of Western Australia 2006 2006 Award - Leighton Memorial Award, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 2007 2009 Career position - Member, College of Experts, Australian Research Council 2007 2012 Career position - Inaugural Director, Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication, University of Western Australia 2008 Career position - Nanoscience Expert, Nano-technology Advisory group, National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme, Australian Department of Health 2010 2010 Award - Professorial Fellowship, Australian Research Council 2011 2011 Award - Named Living Luminary of Australian Chemistry, Royal Australian Chemical Institute 2013 Career position - Professor of Chemistry, Flinders University 2013 2016 Career position - South Australian Premier's Professorial Fellow in Clean Technology, School of Chemistry and Physical Sciences, Flinders University 2014 2014 Career position - Lead inventor Vortex Fluidic Device (machine that unravels proteins, implications for cancer treatment, manufacture of pharmaceuticals, production of biofuels and food processing) 2015 2015 Award - Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared) - for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg 13 Jun 2016 13 Jun 2016 Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) - for distinguished service to science through seminal contributions to the field of chemistry as a researcher and academic, and to professional associations 2018 Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA) 2018 2018 Award - Applied Research Award, Royal Australian Chemical Institute RACI - Inorganic Chemistry Division, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (1986 - )

Chair 1998 - 2000

 H. G. Smith Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (1929 - )

Awarded the Medal 1996

 Australian Academy of Science (1954 - )

Elected Fellow 2018

 Leighton Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (1965 - )

Awarded the Medal 2006

 Monash University (1958 - )

Professor of Chemistry 1995 - 2000

 The University of Western Australia (1911 - )

Professor of Chemistry 2003 - 2005

 Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) (1953 - )

President, 1996 - 1997; named Living Luminary of Australian Chemistry 2011

 Flinders University (1966 - )

Professor of Chemistry 2013 -

 Griffith University (1971 - )

Professor of Chemistry 1988 - 1995

 Burrows Award, RACI - Inorganic Chemistry Division (1975 - )

Received the Award 1994

 Applied Research Award, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (1980 - )

Received the Award 2018

 'Raston, Colin Llewellyn', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Raston, Colin Llewellyn Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Professor William Roy Jackson AM, 27 February 1935 - 3 November 2019 Junk, Peter C.; and Raston, Colin L. Professor William Roy Jackson AM, 27 February 1935 - 3 November 2019 2020 Australian journal of chemistry 73 1125-6