Caroline Paul Group
Biography
Caroline Paul grew up in both Canada and France. She received her Honours BSc and MSc degrees in Biological Chemistry at the University of Toronto with Prof. M. Nitz, and her PhD degree at the University of Oviedo in Spain in the group of Prof. V. Gotor with Prof. V. Gotor-Fernández and Prof. I. Lavandera within the EU project BIOTRAINS.
After postdoctoral work with an EU Marie Curie fellowship at TU Delft and a NWO VENI grant at Wageningen University pursuing her research interests on biomimetic cofactors, she was appointed as assistant professor in Biocatalysis at TU Delft in 2018 and associate professor in 2023.
She is the co-founder of NextGenBiocat, an annual international symposium in biocatalysis to promote early career researchers.
Academic Career and Education
- 2023 Associate Professor, TU Delft
- 2018 Assistant Professor, TU Delft
- 2015 VENI Postdoctoral Researcher, TU Delft/Wageningen University
- 2013 Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, TU Delft
- 2013 PhD cum laude Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Oviedo
- 2010 MSc Chemical Synthesis and Reactivity, University of Oviedo
- 2009 MSc Biological Chemistry, University of Toronto
- 2008 Honours BSc Biological Chemistry, University of Toronto
Awards and Grants
- KNCV Gold Medal 2024
- Chemistry Europe Fellow 2022-2023
- NWO Perspectief Grant 2023
- HORIZON-CL6 Grant 2023
- NWO ENW XL Grant 2022
- N3C Award 2021
- NWO ENW XS Grant 2020
- ERC Starting Grant 2020
- Grand Poster Prize Novel Enzymes Darmstadt 2018, sponsored by Prozomix for the "Most significant concept of revelation contributing to the science of Novel Enzymes"
- Delft Technology Fellowship 2018
- Sophie Vanhulle Prize Oxizymes Belfast 2018
- H2020-MSCA-ITN-EJD PhotoBioCat 2017
- BIOCAT Poster Award Hamburg 2016
- NWO Veni Grant 2015
- FEMS Young Scientist Meeting Grant Freiberg 2014
- BIOTRANS Poster Award Manchester 2013
- FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship 2013
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