Robert Paton won the 2015 Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
[1] Up to three Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prizes are awarded each year.
[2] Paton received the OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the American Chemical Society COMP division in fall 2015.
[3] Paton was formerly an associate professor in organic chemistry at the University of Oxford[4] and a Fellow of St Hilda's College.
[5] Since 2018, He has been a professor at the Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.