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Paul A. Bash was born in Sparks, Nevada on September 27, 1952. He attended public schools in Sparks, Nevada, and received an A.B. in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley. He then entered the U.S. Navy, and spent five years as a Surface Line Officer serving on aircraft carriers and destroyers. In 1980, he entered graduate school in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving his Ph.D. in 1986 in the area of computational biophysics under the guidance of Peter Kollman and Robert Langridge at UCSF, where he developed and used free energy perturbation methods to study protein-ligand interactions. Since that time, he has been a research scientist and group leader for computational biology at Argonne National Laboratory.