Patrick is a Research Assistant focusing on spatial data and quantitative methods. He is currently working on the TRUST project with data quality and researching how farmland quality surrounding refugee settlements impacts host-community-refugee relations, and the viability of exporting the 'Ugandan model' for refugee self-reliance for Sub-Saharan countries.

For MigrationRhythms, Patrick is working with spatial analysis and survey data on how migration affects middle class mobility. As part of POLIMPACT, he has leveraged supervised machine learning for a large-N systematic literature review on how conflict and political dimensions impact climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts. He has also previously worked on a pilot study to obtain disaggregated operator 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 an external MA-student 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".