Since January 2023, Patrick Staubach has been the head the Chair of Geotechnical Engineering. Initially serving as interim professor, he was appointed full Professor at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in September 2024.
Between April 2018 and August 2024, he worked as a research associate at the Institute of Soil Mechanics and Rock Mechanics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology until December 2019, at the Chair of Geotechnicals at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar until December 2022, and at the Chair of Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics at Ruhr University Bochum from January 2020 to August 2024. He completed his doctoral degree, Dr.-Ing., at Ruhr University Bochum in 2022.