Paul joined Imperial College London in April 2012 as Clinical Research Operations Manager in the Faculty of Medicine. Prior to this appointment he worked as Head of the Joint Research Office at St George's, University of London, and as Deputy Scientific Secretary at the Institute of Cancer Research in South Kensington. Paul read Physics at the University of Leeds and completed his PhD in Aerospace Science in 1995 at Cranfield University.

As Director of Research Operations, Paul currently manages the Imperial Joint Research Office (JRO) which spans both the College Faculty of Medicine and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The JRO is responsible for the management and administration of all research grants and contracts received by the two organisations, as well as the set-up and delivery of all clinical research studies in the Trust.

Paul is also the operational lead for the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), a major experimental medicine research infrastructure award worth £108m over 5 years, covering 14 Themes.