Paul Russell is Professor of Philosophy at Lund University and also Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia. At Lund he serves as the Director of the Lund/Gothenburg Responsibility Project. His primary areas of research are free will and moral responsibility and early modern philosophy. He has held a research fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and a Mellon Fellowship at Stanford University. He has also held visiting positions at the University of Virginia and Pittsburgh University. In 2010 he was Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford and in 2023 a Beaufort Visiting Fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge.