Paul is an early career researcher interested in the physics of ocean waves and tidal currents. He obtained a BE with first class honours in Civil Engineering from the National University of Ireland Galway in 2011, an MSc with distinction in Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Edinburgh in 2012, and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2017.
Paul’s doctoral studies were supervised by Prof. Alistair Borthwick, Dr Vengatesan Venugopal, and Prof. Thomas Adcock (University of Oxford), and focused on both the social and ecological impacts of marine energy and the optimal arrangement of turbines in tidal channels. Paul joined the Tidal Energy Research Group at the University of Oxford in late 2016, where he assisted Prof Thomas Adcock and Dr Wei-Koon Lee (Universiti Teknologi MARA) in making a robust assessment of the Malaysian tidal stream power resource.
