Paul completed a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Neuroanatomy at the University of Western Australia and a Diploma Education (Science/Computing) in 1993 before teaching in regional WA for two years. Following this, he joined Telstra Mobilenet leading a customer service team from 1996 ‐1998 before joining Convergent Group Asia Pacific in a consulting/project management capacity 1998‐1999.
Paul joined the Western Australia science centre, Scitech, in 1999 as a project manager in exhibition development before taking on the role of Executive Projects Manager and then Director Science Education Partnerships from 2004 until 2010.
In April 2010, Paul joined Curtin University as Director Strategic Projects, Research & Development before being appointed Director Research Partnerships in 2016.
In 2022, Paul joined the University of Queensland (UQ) as the Executive Director of Research Partnerships.
