Paul is VP at SAP Research, SAP Labs Palo Alto. He was Senior Plant Manager at BASF’s Catalysts Global Business Unit before joining SAP in 2001 as Director Global Strategic SCM Initiative EMEA. He was a member of faculty at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, Technical University of Munich, Germany and Technical University Darmstadt, Germany. Paul studied Chemistry and Physics at the University of Vienna and received his PhD in Physics from the Technical University of Darmstadt.