Dr Anup Paul received his PhD in 2012 from North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. During his PhD, he conducted part of his research at the University of Camerino, Italy. In 2011, he was awarded the Senior Research Fellowship by the Council of Industrial and Scientific Research (CSIR), India. After completing his PhD in 2012, AP received a CONICET Postdoctoral Fellowship (Argentina), researching supramolecular on hybrid compounds (corrole). He then obtained the prestigious Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (India, 2013), joining the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi. In late 2013, AP won a Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Portugal in a highly competitive international call, joining Centro de Quimica Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. His research focused on developing amide-functionalized metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and coordination polymers for catalysis and gas adsorption studies.

In 2017, AP joined Don Bosco College, Tura, as an Assistant Professor, teaching undergraduate courses. In 2018, he was awarded an FCT Junior Researcher position (2019) under the DL57 programme and worked at CQE-IST until January 2025. He has continued researching MOFs/CPs as functional materials for catalysis, energy storage, and environmental applications. He is presently a Research collaborator at Centro de Estudos de Engenharia Química, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. 

AP has published 63 peer-reviewed articles, including 24 as a corresponding author, alongside 3 book chapters. Over the last five years, he has published 36 articles (20 as corresponding author), demonstrating his independence in research. AP is a reviewer for journals by Elsevier, Wiley, RSC, ACS, and MDPI and has guest-edited journals like Crystal, Frontiers in Chemistry, and Materials. He is currently a guest editor for Processes and has been on the editorial board of Transient, published by Don Bosco College, India, since 2017.

AP has contributed to national and international collaborative projects. He has also participated in organising three international conferences and served on academic committees at IST since 2021.