Benedikt studied medicine at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. He conducted his MD thesis work in the lab of Joachim Steinbach at the Dr. Senckenberg Institute of Neurooncology. In 2020, he started his medical residency in neurology at the University Hospital Frankfurt and, funded by the Patenschaftsmodell of the Frankfurt Research Funding, initiated a collaborative project with the Münch laboratory. In this project, he focuses on the mechanisms underlying metabolic adaption to the microenvironment in glioblastoma.