Daniel Rückert is Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI in Medicine and Healthcare at the Technical University of Munich, where he directs the Institute for AI and Informatics in Medicine. He is also a Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. He joined Imperial College as a Lecturer in 1999, becoming Senior Lecturer in 2003 and full Professor in 2005, and from 2016 to 2020 he served as Head of the Department. He has founded the Biomedical Image Analysis group consisting of four academics, 15 post-docs and 20 PhD students.

He received a Diploma in Computer Science (equiv. to M.Sc.) from the Technical University Berlin and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Imperial College London. Before moving to Imperial College, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at King’s College London, where he worked on the development of non-rigid registration algorithms for the compensation of tissue motion and deformation. The developed registration techniques have been successfully used for the non-rigid registration of various anatomical structures, including in the breast, liver, heart and brain, and are currently commercialized by IXICO, an Imperial College spin-out company.

During his doctoral and post-doctoral research he has published more than 500 journal and conference articles as well as graduated over 50 PhD students. Professor Rückert is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, a member of the editorial board of Medical Image Analysis, Image & Vision Computing, MICCAI/Elsevier Book Series, and a referee for a number of international medical imaging journals and conferences. He has served on the organising and programme committees of numerous international conferences.

He is an elected Fellow of the MICCAI Society (2014), the Royal Academy of Engineering (2015), the IEEE (2015) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (2019). In 2025 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious research award in Germany.