Patrick Langer is a Ph. D. candidate and doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich since May 2022. He holds a Bachelor’s as well as a Master’s degree from TU Ilmenau in Computer Science Engineering with specializations in medical technologies, machine learning, and embedded hardware & software. Having started programming and working with embedded hardware at a very young age, Patrick gained numerous technical skills throughout the years in a self-taught manner and is passionate about applying these skills to solve medical problems. He is one of the winners of the German “Jugend forscht” prize (in 2016), for which he built an EMG-based device that allows handicapped people to play games or write texts. In his master’s thesis, he developed realtime machine learning applications aiding patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease in everyday life.