Robert Paton is a professor of chemistry at Colorado State University.  

His team develops quantitative, data-driven approaches aimed at making synthetic chemistry more predictable. By reducing the time and resources needed to design and optimize synthetic routes, the tools and protocols developed in the Paton Laboratory help chemists focus more on what molecules should be made and why rather than on how to make them. In addition, Paton seeks to help chemists minimize wasteful byproducts.  

Paton received his master’s and Ph.D from the University of Cambridge and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California Los Angeles.  

Paton’s research has been published in Paton’s research has been published in Science, Nature, Nature Chemistry and Nature Machine Intelligence.