Daniel Rückert is Alexander-von-Humboldt-Professor for AI in Medicine and Healthcare at the University Hospital of the Technical University of Munich, where he is also the director of the Institute for AI and Informatics in Medicine. Furthermore, he is Professor of Visual Information Processing at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London.
He has contributed to over 500 publications, and has supervised over 50 PhD students and more than 40 Post-Docs. He is a Fellow of the MICCAI Society (2014), a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2015), a Fellow of the IEEE (2015), a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2019), a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems ELLIS (2021), a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2021) and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (2023). In 2024 he received the Enduring Impact Award of the MICCAI Society for his pioneering work in the field of biomedical image reconstruction and image analysis. Daniel Rückert was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2025, the most important research award in Germany, which is awarded by the German Research Foundation and is endowed with 2.5 million Euro.