Daniel Rueckert is a Professor of Visual Information Processing in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. Since 2020, he is also an Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI in Medicine and Healthcare at the Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, where he is Director of the Institute for AI and Informatics in Medicine. He gained a Diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University Berlin in 1993 and a PhD from Imperial College London in 1997, followed by a post-doc at King’s College London. In 1999, he joined Imperial College as a Lecturer, becoming Senior Lecturer in 2003 and full Professor in 2005. He served as Head of the Department of Computing at Imperial College London between 2016 and 2020.

As part of his research activities, he has published over 500 journal and conference articles with over 100,000 citations, graduated over 60 PhD students and supervised and mentored over 40 post-docs. Currently, he is a senior member of the editorial board of Medical Image Analysis, and has served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Pattern and Machine Intelligence and Image and Vision Computing and as a referee for several international journals and conferences in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Medical Imaging.

He has been elected as Fellow of the MICCAI Society (2014), Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2015), Fellow of the IEEE (2015), Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2019), Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems ELLIS (2021), Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2021) and Fellow of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2023). He is the recipient of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2025), which is the most important German research prize endowed with €2.5M by the German Research Foundation (DFG).