Prof. Dr.-Ing. Patrick Wolf is a junior professor for control and perception architectures for off-road robotic systems at the Department of Computer Science at RPTU Kaiserslautern. His research focuses on behavioral intelligence and self-adaptive architectures for autonomous robotic systems.
After studying Applied Computer Science at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern from 2010 to 2016 with a focus on embedded systems and robotics, Patrick Wolf dedicated his master's thesis to the topic of "Structured Design of Quality-Sensitive Behavior-Based Perception Systems". He investigated the quality of sensor data and its effects on the control of autonomous vehicles.
From 2016 to 2023, he worked as a research assistant and doctoral student at the Chair of Robotic Systems at RPTU. During this time, he conducted intensive research on autonomous commercial vehicles and received his doctorate with distinction in 2022. His dissertation entitled "Cognitive Processing in Behavior-Based Perception of Autonomous Off-Road Vehicles" presented innovative concepts for robust environment recognition and adaptive perception architecture.
He then worked as a Senior Safety Engineer at Fraunhofer IESE from 2023 to 2025, where he dealt with the safety of autonomous driving and approaches to situational risk management of autonomous systems. During this time, he was also a lecturer at RPTU and gave the lecture "Off-road Robotics", which was awarded the VLU prize for special commitment to teaching several times.
Since July 2025, he has been a junior professor at RPTU's Department of Computer Science and an expert in "Autonomics" at Fraunhofer IESE.