Robert Paton
Marshall Fixman And Branka Ladanyi Professor Of Chemistry at Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRobert Paton is a computational and organic chemist who leverages algorithmic methods to predict selectivity and design molecules, currently holding the Marshall Fixman and Branka Ladanyi Professorship of Chemistry at Colorado State University. Trained at Cambridge (top of his Natural Sciences cohort) with a PhD focused on automated force-field parameterization, he blends deep theoretical chemistry with practical computer-aided chemical design. His career spans independent fellowships at Cambridge, a Fulbright-AstraZeneca postdoc in the Houk lab at UCLA, and faculty roles at Oxford before moving to CSU. Paton’s work is recognized by awards from the RSC, ACS OpenEye, and others, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Beyond traditional academia, he leads a group that integrates high-performance computing and predictive modeling to accelerate synthetic decision-making. Colleagues note his knack for turning complex quantum and statistical methods into usable tools for practicing chemists.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Natural Sciences, I, MSc, Natural Sciences, I at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (51)
pymol10
orca10
dft10
python10
conda10
reaction10
weighted10
searching10
harmonic10
gaussian10
irc10
temperature10
conda-forge9
quantum-chemistry9
computational-chemistry9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
patonlab/pyX-Struct
Jun 2018 - Nov 2020
Python tool for scraping geometric X-ray Data from the Cambridge Structural Database
Contributions:2 releases, 33 commits, 23 pushes in 2 years 5 months
databasepythonccdcsmilesx-ray
patonlab/pyQRC
Jun 2018 - Feb 2022
Quick Reaction Coordinate: normal mode displacement of transition structures
Contributions:5 releases, 46 commits, 6 PRs in 3 years 8 months
pythoncoordinatereactionircreaction-coordinate
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