Prof. Dr.-Ing. Patrick Wolf is Junior Professor for Control and Perception Architectures for Off-road Robotic Systems at the Department of Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. His research focuses on behavioral intelligence, self-adaptive system architectures and robust perception and decision making for autonomous robotic systems in unstructured, challenging environments.

He studied Applied Computer Science at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern with a focus on embedded systems and robotics (2010-2016). From 2016 to 2023, Patrick Wolf was a research assistant and PhD student at the Chair of Robotic Systems at RPTU. During this time, he conducted intensive research on autonomous commercial and off-road vehicles and received his doctorate with distinction in 2022. His dissertation "Cognitive Processing in Behavior-Based Perception of Autonomous Off-Road Vehicles" developed novel concepts for robust environment recognition, quality-aware perception and adaptive perception architectures for autonomous systems.

He then worked as a senior safety engineer and project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE from 2023 to 2025. There he dealt with the safety of autonomous vehicle systems, in particular with situational risk management, safety-oriented architecture development and the safeguarding of adaptive autonomous functions. At the same time, he was active as a lecturer at RPTU and was responsible for the lecture "Off-road Robotics", which was awarded the VLU prize for special commitment to teaching several times.

Since July 2025, Prof. Wolf has been a junior professor at RPTU's Department of Computer Science and an expert in autonomics at Fraunhofer IESE. In research and teaching, he pursues the goal of developing intelligent, safe and adaptive autonomous robot systems for demanding real-world environments and strengthening the transfer to industrial applications.