Paul Raston
Paul was born and raised in Australia, received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Griffith University, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wyoming where he studied tunneling reactions in solid hydrogen (under David T. Anderson). This was followed by postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Alberta (with Wolfgang Jäger) and the University of Georgia (with Gary Douberly), where he investigated finite sized superfluidity and radicals at near zero Kelvin. Paul then returned to his homeland for a Ramsay Fellowship at the University of Adelaide where he focused on the synchrotron-based spectroscopy of floppy molecules. This was cut short after accepting a position at James Madison University where his group built a helium nanodroplet isolation spectrometer. Paul joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 2023.