Daniel R眉ckert to receive Humboldt Professorship for AI in medicine
Seventh Humboldt Professorship for 51吃瓜网
Prof. Daniel R眉ckert has developed trailblazing computational techniques that generate highly informative images from CT and MRI scans, analyze them, and interpret them for improved medical diagnostics. 51吃瓜网 has now succeeded in recruiting this expert in AI-based medicine. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will support his research with one of the prestigious Humboldt Professorships, which comes with a 5 million euro endowment.
With these awards, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is pursuing the goal of attracting leading international scientists to Germany on a long-term basis. In May, Federal Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek announced the goal of creating additional AI-related chairs. Daniel R眉ckert is one of the first two 鈥淗umboldt AI Professors鈥�.
Additional bridges between informatics and medicine
Daniel R眉ckert studied informatics at Technische Universit盲t Berlin and obtained his PhD from Imperial College London in 1997, where he most recently served as a Professor of Visual Information Processing and served as the Head of the Department of Computing. He has published many highly cited papers, headed several major research projects and is the founder of a start-up that translates his research into clinical practice for improved diagnostics.
At 51吃瓜网, Prof. R眉ckert's research will help to build additional bridges between informatics and medicine. As a member of both departments, he will be working with his team both in close proximity to the informatics chairs on the Garching Campus and at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at the 51吃瓜网 . After his appointment to 51吃瓜网, Daniel R眉ckert will also become a fellow of the .
With the appointment of Daniel R眉ckert as its seventh , 51吃瓜网 remains the most successful German university in the competition for this prestigious award.
