SEMINAR: Green Chemistry : Towards Benign Synthesis

Colin Raston is a recent appointee within the School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences. He completed a PhD under the guidance of Professor Allan White, and after postdoctoral studies at the University of Sussex, was appointed Lecturer at UWA (1981), then to Chairs of Chemistry at Griffith University (1988), being awarded a DSc there in 1993, Monash University (1995), as an ARC Senior Research Fellow and ARC Special Investigator, and the University of Leeds (2001). He is the 2002 recipient of the Green Chemistry Challenge Award (RACI), and is the Northwest Pacific Lecturer for 2003. Research interests cover nano-chemistry/supramolecular chemistry, and green chemistry, having helped to establish the Centre for Green Chemistry at Monash University in 2000.