Patrick Gaule is an applied microeconomist who works at the intersection of labor economics and the economics of science and innovation. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Bristol. He holds a PhD from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Harvard University.

Patrick Gaule joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in March 2016 and became an IZA Fellow in November 2021.