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From left to right: Dr. Mario A. Cypko, Dr. Andrea Proaño Vasco, Dr. Marcus Säbel, Prof. Michael Quante. Togehter with a part of the KI-COMPASS team, including Dr. Andrea Proaño Vasco and Prof. Michael Quante (both from Medical Center - University of Freiburg), Dr. Marcus Säbel (BiSIGMA) and me (Hahn-Schickard), we recently had the opportunity to take part in the BMFTR kick-off event that brought together all five projects selected within the current funding context of the

I am very glad to see our work now published and presented at CHI 2026. The paper, “ViRAS: Design Artifacts to Explore Socio-Material Configurations through a Research-through-Design Approach in Robot-Assisted Surgery,”addresses a topic that I still consider highly important for the future of robotic surgery: how robotic systems reshape communication, responsibility, situational awareness, and teamwork in the operating room. Paper link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/377

I am very pleased to contribute to the new BMFTR-funded project KI-COMPASS, which addresses an area I consider highly important for the future of personalized follow-up care: the combination of wearables, clinical data, machine learning, and knowledge-based AI to identify cardiovascular risks earlier in patients with gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (GEAC). What makes the project especially meaningful to me is that it brings together several themes that are central to my curre

I am very pleased that our new paper on LLM-supported Bayesian network modelling for clinical decision supporthas now been published in the International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery. This work is the result of a highly valuable collaboration between colleagues from Hahn-Schickard and the University of Freiburg in Germany, the University Hospital Leipzig in Germany, and Staten Island University Hospital / Northwell Health in New York, USA. I had the plea

The “Wybitny Polak w Niemczech” gala at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Berlin was a truly special and deeply moving experience for me. I am very grateful for this recognition and especially thankful that my family could share this memorable evening with me. What stayed with me most were the many conversations about science, innovation, and possible future collaborations with members of the Polish community. These exchanges showed me once again how much potential the

At the 2025 conference of the International Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (iSMIT) in Washington, D.C., I was honoured with the Patient Safety Award 2025 in recognition of his long-term work on AI in Model-Guided Medicine. The award highlights ongoing efforts to develop transparent, safe, and clinically meaningful AI systems for decision support in medicine. It also reflects the growing importance of approaches that combine artificial intelligence with explicit

After my time at the European Space Agency, I am very glad to be moving closer to space medicine again. Together with colleagues from Hahn-Schickard, ESA’s longest-serving Flight Surgeon and long-time Medical Advisor to NASA, we published a position paper on telemedicine at SpaceCHI / Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics. The paper with the title "Digital Health for Space: Towards Prevention, Training, Empowerment, and Autonomy" explores how telemedicine changes

HCC Research presented at the MuC 2022: Six key findings from our six observations of robotic-assisted surgeries at the Charité Berlin indicate required features for semi-autonomous robots in the operating room [1]: Extensive technical, medical and patient-specific knowledge. Ensure intraoperative situational awareness of the process, team, patient and their environment. Provide understanding of the system's capabilities (and their limitations) to the team at all times. Enabl

In a short, very cool 5-minutes post, MINTmagie from the BMBF showed my interdisciplinary research in Robotic-Assisted Surgery. It is also for me always a huge but very exciting challenge to reflect my research in simple words. Many thanks to the BMBF and their team for the interest, the great shoot and the really cool result. Link zum YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt4ekzL_NbY