Patrick May, PhD

Patrick May studied Biology at the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany and Bioinformatics and Computer Science at the Applied University in Berlin, Germany, and received his PhD in Theoretical Biochemistry from the Free University of Berlin in 2007. He pursued a Postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, working on systems biology and next-generation sequencing analysis. In 2010, he received a 5-year fellowship from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) and the Institute for Systems Biology (Hood and Dudley labs) to work on genomics and genetics of neurological diseases. In 2015, he became a Senior Researcher at LCSB, leading the Genome Analysis team working on Parkinson’s disease (PD) and epilepsy genetics. He was PI of the genetic analysis within the Luxembourg National Centre of Excellence in Research on Parkinson's disease, and is part of several international cohort studies on PD and related diseases.