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Professor Paul Walton

Highlights

  • Chair of Dalton Transactions editorial board, 2004-2008.
  • Chair of Heads of Chemistry, UK, 2011-2013.
  • Chair of RSC Diversity Working Group, 2010-2013.
  • Gertrude Cropper Award for outstanding research, 1989.
  • NATO/SERC postdoctoral fellowship, 1991-1993.
  • RSC 175 Faces of Chemistry, 2016.
  • RSC Joseph Chatt Award and medal, 2016.
  • IChemE Global Energy Award, winner 2016.
  • WISE award shortlist, 2016.
  • Dow Chemicals Lecturer, University of Victoria, Canada, 2019.
  • Highlands in Chemistry Lecturer, Virginia Tech, USA, 2020.
  • Frontiers in Chemistry Lecturer, Wayne State University, USA, 2020.
  • Jubilee Professor, Chalmers University Sweden, 2020.
  • RSC Rita and John Cornforth Award and medal, 2020.
  • Chair, Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes GRC, 2023.
  • RSC Higher Education Teaching Award, 2000.
  • Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award, 2020.
  • Royal Society Athena Prize, runner up, 2016.
  • WISE man of the year shortlist, 2020.

Research lectures

International research lectures

  • ICCC, Fort-Collins, Colorado, USA, 2024
  • RSC-Hong Kong symposium, Hong Kong, 2023
  • Lehigh University, USA, 2023
  • Washington University, St Louis, USA, 2023
  • Duke University, Raleigh, USA, 2023
  • University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA, 2023
  • Stanford University, Stanford, USA, 2023
  • Harvard University, Harvard, USA, 2023
  • LABIC, Chile, 2023
  • Copper Meeting, Sorrento, Italy, 2022
  • AsiaBIC, Kobe, Japan, 2022
  • Nobel symposium, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Sweden, 2022
  • Wayne State University, USA, 2022
  • Telluride invitation meeting, USA, 2020
  • Metallo-cofactors GRC, USA, 2022
  • Virginia Tech, USA, 2021
  • Leiden University, Holland, 2020
  • CNRS Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination (LCC), France 2020
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2019
  • University of Victoria, Canada, 2019
  • Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2019
  • University of British Columbia, Canada, 2019
  • University of Campinas, Brazil, 2019
  • Quantum Bioinorganic Chemistry, Marseille, France, 2019
  • International Conference, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Interlaken, Switzerland, 2019
  • Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, Gordon Research Conference, Galveston Texas USA, 2019
  • 9th International Symposium of Advanced Energy Science, Kyoto, Japan, 2018
  • Eurobic meeting, University of Birmingham, UK, 2018
  • CNRS Marseille, Copper Symposium, Marseille, France, 2018
  • ACS meeting, Symposium in Honor of Andrew S. Borovik, New Orleans, 2018
  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, 2018
  • Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, 2018
  • ACS meeting, 'The Many Colors of Copper', Washington DC, 2017
  • ICBIC meeting, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2017
  • Eurocarb 2016 (plenary speaker), Barcelona, Spain, 2017
  • 2nd Generation Bioethanol Meeting, Campinas, Brazil, 2016
  • Symposium on LPMOs, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2016
  • 10th Georgia Glycoscience Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 2016
  • University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2016
  • RSC Dalton UK-China '5+5' meeting, Shanghai, China, 2016
  • Telluride invitation meeting, USA, 2016
  • ERA-IB net final meeting, Berlin, Germany, 2016
  • National Tsing-Hua university, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2015
  • Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 2015
  • Novozymes Award Scientific Meeting, Copenhagen, 2015
  • Chalmers University, Sweden, 2015
  • Cellulosomes, Cellulases and Other Carbohydrate-Modifying Enzymes, Gordon Research Conference, NH, USA 2015
  • ERA-IB meeting, Brussels, 2014
  • University of Lund, Sweden 2013
  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA 2013
  • Metals in Biology Gordon Research Conference, California, USA 2013
  • CBM10 conference, keynote lecture, Prague, Czech Republic 2013
  • Novozymes Science Infusion Lecture, Copenhagen, Denmark 2012
  • University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2012
  • Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Diego, USA 2012
  • Novozymes, Davis California, USA 2012

National research lectures

  • University of Sussex, 2023
  • RSC, Inorganic Biochemistry Discussion Group, 2021
  • University of Manchester, MIB, 2020
  • UK Catalysis Conference, University of Loughborough, 2019
  • Athena Swan celebration symposium, University of York, 2018
  • UK national EPR meeting, 2018
  • University of York, 2017
  • University of Essex, 2017
  • Aberdeen University, 2016
  • University of Nottingham, 2016
  • University of Leicester, 2016
  • University of Birmingham, 2015
  • BBSRC biofuels meeting, 2014
  • East Anglia University, 2014
  • University of Huddersfield, 2014
  • RSC Dalton 2014 Meeting, Warwick 2014
  • University of St Andrews, 2013
  • Queen Mary College, University of London, 2013

Gender equality work

Full details on on gender equality work webpage.  Paul is one of the Poyal Society of Chemistry's 175 Faces of Chemistry.