Growing up on an exploration camp within a family of exploration geologists in the famous “Golden Quadrilateral” in Western Transylvania, Paul followed the family passion for rocks and graduated top of class BSc in Geology follow by MSc in Petrology and Metallogeny at University of Bucharest. This was complemented by additional training and research at University of Salzburg and ETH Zurich.
Paul’s career started with the Geological Survey of Romania, as research scientist on the Metallogeny Group, before joining Barrick Gold - Eurasia team in 2006 as exploration geologist and being involved on regional exploration across the Western Tethyan Belt including belt wide generative studies and regional exploration around Reko Diq in Pakistan and Banat and Apuseni in Romania.
He joined Eldorado Gold in 2012 as Exploration Manager directing exploration efforts in Romania, including the advancement of the Certej epithermal project and discovery of Bolcana gold -rich porphyry system and later leading the regional exploration efforts as Regional Chief Geologist for SE Europe and Turkey.
In 2019 Paul joined Dundee Precious Metals as Director Exploration, Brownfields and Advanced Projects, with core responsibilities of leading near mine and regional explorations in Serbia and Bulgaria. In August 2023, Paul become General Manager for Europe Exploration at DPM.
While working on greenfield and brownfield exploration on Western Tethyan Belt for more than 20 years, Paul gained a broad experience on a wide range of deposits spanning from VMS, carbonate replacement and Carlin / sediment hosted to porphyry copper-gold and associated epithermal gold-silver deposits and been responsible for the discovery of more than 10Moz Au Eq.