Paul Koppen, PhD, is the Project Manager for a major collaborative research project in face recognition FACER2VM, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK.

He is based at the University of Surrey, where he studied for a PhD degree in 3D face analysis. After his PhD, he was employed as a postdoctoral research fellow working on a project relating face shape to genetics, funded by the Wellcome foundation. More recently, he had responsibility for technology transfer in the area of 3D face model building and 3D face morphable model fitting.