Patrick has been a PhD student in the Zeller group since February 2024; before that he did an internship in the group between October 2023 and January 2024. He obtained a BSc in Biochemistry from Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany, in 2019 and an MSc in Bioinformatics from the same institute in 2023. His Master’s thesis aimed at improving the performance of taxonomic profiling pipelines by clustering of protein reference databases.

His PhD project focuses on computational tool development and applications for taxonomic and functional profiling, particularly concerning bacteria and eukaryota within low-biomass samples. He currently works on enhancing the mOTUs profiler to improve its sensitivity and more tightly integrate it with functional profiling tools.