His research focuses on vascular pathophysiology and the identification of specific drug compounds with the goal of modulating blood vessel function for therapeutic benefits. Paolo is also strongly committed to University education and teaches pharmacology and related subjects to undergraduate students in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences as well as to postgraduate MSc and PhD students. After completing a PhD at the University of Bath (2004), he took up a post-doctoral position at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (University of Oxford), while also holding a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College. In late 2008, Paolo was awarded a Research Council (RCUK) Fellowship and a BBSRC New Investigator Award to set up an independent laboratory at the University of Manchester. He returned to Oxford in 2012 in his current role.