title: Daniel Rueckert
text: # Daniel Rueckert
  
  Daniel Rueckert (born January 1969) is Professor of Visual Information Processing and former Head of the Department of Computing at Imperial College London.
  
  He received a Diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin and a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London entitled Segmentation and tracking in cardiovascular images using geometrically deformable models and templates.
  
  He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
  
  He has an h-index of 111.
  
  Since May 2023, Rueckert is the director of the Munich Center for Machine Learning.
  
  