Researching Martin Paul

Paul began his career as a trainee with Bristol Rovers. He played 29 first-team games before being released in 1996. He joined Doncaster Rovers, but in November 1996 joined Bath City. After initially struggling to establish himself, Paul became a regular goalscorer for Bath, including scoring 30 goals in the 1998–99 season to be the top scorer in the Southern League.

He was sold to Newport County in May 2001 for £3,000, from where he moved to Chippenham Town, again for a four-figure fee, in July 2002. He returned to Bath City in February 2005. However, his second spell with Bath was not as successful as his first and he left to join Mangotsfield United in December 2005.

He was linked with a move to Paulton Rovers in September 2006, and later played for Chippenham before retiring during the 2006–07 season. He did however come out of retirement to play for Bath City in their Errea cup tie against Tiverton Town in January 2007, and began playing in their league side again while on non-contract terms.

In February 2008 he signed again for Chippenham Town.

After stints as a lecturer at Heidelberg University and as a research group leader with Detlev Ganten at Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch, Paul became Full Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the Benjamin Franklin Medical Center of the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin in 1995. At the FU, Paul was director of the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology from 1997 to 2008 and dean of the Medical Faculty from 1997 to 2003. He was also dean of the Medical Faculty and vice president of the Board of Directors of Charité Medical Center, the joint university hospital resulting from the merger of the medical schools of the FU and Humboldt University of Berlin, from 2004 to 2008. He subsequently relocated to the Netherlands, where he was dean of the Maastricht University Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences and vice chair of the Maastricht University Medical Centre from 2008 to 2011.