Paul Groundwater gained his B.Sc. Chemistry and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Edinburgh. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra then joined the Cancer Research Campaign Experimental Chemotherapy Research Group, Aston University, UK. He was appointed to a Lectureship in the Department of Chemistry, Cardiff University and then 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. In 2009 he moved to the University of Sydney, where he is Prof. of Medicinal Chemistry and has served as Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) in the Faculty of Pharmacy. He has published more than 100 refereed articles, four books and 3 patents and has been a Guest Professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, P.R. China.