Martin Alfons Paul (born 1958 in Sankt Ingbert, Saarland) is a German clinical pharmacologist. On 1 May 2011 he succeeded Jo Ritzen as president of Maastricht University.[1] On 29 April 2021 it was announced that he will succeed Axel Schölmerich as rector of the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany on 1 November 2021.[2]
After stints as a lecturer at Heidelberg University and as a research group leader with Detlev Ganten at Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch, Paul became Full Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the Benjamin Franklin Medical Center of the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin in 1995. At the FU, Paul was director of the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology from 1997 to 2008 and dean of the Medical Faculty from 1997 to 2003. He was also dean of the Medical Faculty and vice president of the Board of Directors of Charité Medical Center, the joint university hospital resulting from the merger of the medical schools of the FU and Humboldt University of Berlin, from 2004 to 2008. He subsequently relocated to the Netherlands, where he was dean of the Maastricht University Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences and vice chair of the Maastricht University Medical Centre from 2008 to 2011.