Dr. Patrick Wurzel

I lead the Spatial Systems Biology group at the Chair for Computational and Theoretical Biology (CCTB) and I am affiliated with the Mildred Scheel Early Career Center Würzburg (MSNZ). I studied Bioinformatics at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where I completed my PhD with a focus on digital pathology.

I am fascinated by biological systems as highly organized functional units in which every cell, structure, and interaction carries biological meaning. My research aims to decode this meaning by investigating how spatial organization and cellular interplay give rise to tissue function in health and disease. To make these principles measurable, I combine spatial omics with graph-based modelling and machine learning.

• since 2026: Group Leader Spatial Systems Biology
  Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg (CCTB)
   
• 2026-2026: PostDoc
  Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (CCTB)
   
• 2024-2026: PostDoc, IT Coordinator, IT Security Officer
  Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main (Institute for General Pharmacology and Toxicology)
   
• 2023-2024: Research Assitant, IT Coordinator, IT Security Officer
  Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main (Institute for General Pharmacology and Toxicology)
   
• 2020-2022: Research Assitant
  Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt am Main (AG Hansmann)
   
• 2018-2019: Bioinformatician
  Lieberz-Hansmann GmbH, Bad Homburg vd Höhe
   
• 2018-2023: Promotion (Dr. rer. nat.)
  Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
  „Multidimensionale Charakterisierung reaktiver und neoplastischer menschlicher Lymphknoten unter Anwendung von Methoden aus dem Bereich Bioinformatik, digitale Pathologie, Datenanalyse und Graphentheorie“ (AG Koch, AG Hansmann)
   
• 2015-2017: Master Bioinformatics
  Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
   
• 2011-2015: Bachelor Bioinformatics
  Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main