Daniel Rueckert (born January 1969) [1] is professor of visual information processing and former head of the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. [2]
He received a diploma in computer science from Technische Universität Berlin and a PhD in computer science from Imperial College London entitled Segmentation and tracking in cardiovascular images using geometrically deformable models and templates. [2]
He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), [3] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. [2]
Since May 2023, Rueckert is a director of the Munich Center for Machine Learning. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2025. [5] In 2025, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. [6]