ProfessorPaul Groundwater

BSc (Chemistry), PhD (Organic Chemistry), CSci, CChem, FRSC

Professor Paul Groundwater is Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy. Paul's research interests include the design and synthesis of novel agents for the treatment of bacterial infections and new methods for the detection of bacteria.

Professor Groundwater has a BSc and Doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh. In 1987-88, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra and then returned to the UK to join the Cancer Research Campaign Experimental Chemotherapy Research Group, Aston University, UK.

In 1989 Paul was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, Cardiff University. In 1996 he was appointed to a Readership in Organic Chemistry in the Institute of Pharmacy and Chemistry at the University of Sunderland and was promoted to Professor, in the Sunderland Pharmacy School, in 2001. Paul was the Centre Director of chemiSPEC, a business providing spectroscopic services to industry.

He has published more than 100 papers and 5 books. He was a Guest Professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P.R. China and an Honorary Professor in the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, University of Durham, UK.