Paul grew up in Essen and graduated from school in Wiesbaden with general qualification for university entrance (Abitur). He studied medicine at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main and obtained the 1.Staatsexamen in summer 2017. Since September 2017 he started his MD Thesis in the SUMO signalling Group of Stefan Müller at Institute of Biochemestry II. He is now focussing on the role of SUMO system during cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury and the identification of novel SUMO targets via mass spectrometry.