Paul (born 1993 in Hannover, Germany) obtained his bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry from the Leibniz University Hannover in 2015. He continued studying M. Sc. Natural Product and Medicinal Chemistry at the same university, including an internship in the group of Prof. Matteo Zanda (University of Aberdeen, Scotland), supported by an Erasmus scholarship. Paul conducted his M. Sc. thesis research at the Institute for Medicinal Chemistry of the Helmholtz Centre Munich in the group of Prof. Oliver Plettenburg, working on the design, synthesis and evaluation of a library of drug candidates. After finishing his M. Sc. studies in 2017 with distinction, he pursued a PhD research project in the group of Prof. Hans-Dieter Arndt (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena). The project spanned from the total synthesis and derivatization of bioactive natural products to synthetic methodology and was supported by a PhD fellowship by the German Federal Environmental Foundation. In April 2023, Paul joined the group of Prof. Minnaard, working on the application of electrosynthesis to natural product synthesis.