In June 2022 Patrick started working as CTO for iThera Medical in Munich and is listening to molecules to open a new era of in-vivo medical imaging. Beforehand he was engaged for 12 years as SVP R&D for TOPTICA Photonics in Munich, scaling the R&D organization from 24 to more than 100 people and the revenue from 14M€ to 105M€. His industry career started 1998 at Siemens Information and Communication Network in Munich, where had various functions from research to project management and head of optical systems R&D department, later at Nokia Siemens Networks he was engaged as head of portfolio management and finally head of product management for the operating systems software of optical and packet transmission systems. He holds academic degrees from Technical University of Munich (Dipl.-Phys., laser physics and semiconductor physics) and RWTH Aachen (Dr. rer. nat., III-V quantum well semiconductors and THz radiation), the post-doc as Feodor Lynen fellow was performed at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (II-VI magneto-optic semiconductors).