After completing his PhD at Bristol in 2003 under the supervision of Professor Varinder Aggarwal (FRS), Paul then moved to the Max Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Mülheim, Germany) working with Professor Alois Fürstner. In 2006, Paul was appointed Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2012 and leads the Molecular Synthesis and Catalysis research unit in the School of Chemistry.

Divergent C-H Insertion-Cyclization Cascades of N-Allyl Ynamides; H. V. Adcock, E. Chatzopoulou, P. W. Davies,* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015: DOI: 10.1002/anie.201507167R2. Nucleophilic Nitrenoids Through π-Acid Catalysis: Providing a Common Basis for Rapid Access into Diverse Nitrogen Heterocycles; P. W. Davies,* M. Garzon, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2015, 4, 694-708. A Direct Route into Fused Imidazo-diazines and Imidazo-pyridines Using Nucleophilic Nitrenoids in a Gold-Catalyzed Formal [3 + 2]-Dipolar Cycloaddition; M. Garzon, P. W. Davies,* Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 4850-4853. 1,2-N-Migration in a Gold-Catalysed Synthesis of Functionalised Indenes by the 1,1-Carboalkoxylation of Ynamides; H. V. Adcock, T. Langer, P. W. Davies,* Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 7262-7266. A Gold-Catalysed Fully Intermolecular Oxidation and Sulfur-Ylide Formation Sequence on Ynamides; M. Dos Santos, P. W. Davies,* Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 6001-6004.