Patrick worked for many years within the A1 Collaboration at MAMI on strangeness production, hadron spectroscopy, and hypernuclei. In the last years, he was preparing light dark matter search experiments at the MESA accelerator under construction in Mainz. He has a strong background in the operation of experiments and experimental equipment, with a focus on electron beam and spectrometer facilities. Since 2009, he has been engaged in research at Jefferson Lab. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in the field of particle, hadron, and nuclear physics. He is also a presenter comfortable on the international stage who has given numerous talks at scientific events. Before coming to Jefferson Lab, Patrick was a Professor of Experimental Physics at the Johannes Gutenberg University. He has also served or is serving on the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) Program Advisory Committee and on several Executive & Collaboration Boards, Steering and Collaboration Management Committees. Moreover, he has links to the Research Center for Electron Photon Science in Sendai, Japan, the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research near Darmstadt, Germany, and the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research FAIR at the same place.