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