Patrick is a Research Assistant focusing on data and quantitative methods. He is currently working on the TRUST project with data management and an emphasis on conflict induced migration changes and the consequences for the host-community. Patrick has previously worked on a pilot study to obtain disaggregated data on aid allocations for mine action which he presented at the UN during the 21st meeting of the States Parties to the APBMC.

As part of the TRUST Project, his MA Thesis investigated how ethnic composition and refugee arrivals affect attitudes of social trust in African host-communities, titled "Distrusting Ethnic Changes? A quantitative study on the moderating role of ethnic group change in the refugee population for refugee-hosting communities' social trust in Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia".