Professor Colin L Raston AO FAA has made seminal contributions to inorganic, organometallic, supramolecular and green chemistry, nanoscience, nanotechnology and flow chemistry. In 2015, he shared an Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for inventing a chemical recipe to partially un-boil an egg". In 2016, Raston was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to science. Elected to the Academy in 2018.