Colin L Raston Royal Australian Chemical Institute National Congress 2026

Colin L Raston

Prof Colin Raston AO FAA has a Chair in Clean Technology at Flinders University, and is a former President of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI). In 2015 he shared the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry with colleagues at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Western Australia, in 2016 he was Appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia, in 2018 was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, and in 2020 he was South Australian Scientist of the Year. His current research embraces green chemistry, focusing on the fundamentals of the fluid flow under high shear under continuous flow processing using the vortex fluidic device (VFD), and harnessing the induced mechanical energy in the thin film microfluidic platform for applications where the processing is high in green chemistry metrics.