Daniel Rueckert

Daniel Rueckert 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 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.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
He has an h-index of 111.
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. In 2025, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.