Patric Seefeldt is pursuing a Ph.D. at DLR and the University of Bremen on Development and Qualification Strategies for Deployable Membrane Spacecraft Systems. He works in the projects Gossamer-1 and GoSolAr at the DLR Institute of Space Systems in Bremen, Germany. He studied mechanical engineering at the RWTH Technical University of Aachen, Germany, where he worked as a research associate at the Institute of Structural Mechanics and Lightweight Design.