Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Professor Dr.-Ing. h.c. Heinz-Otto Peitgen ("HO") brings immense medical imaging and AI technology expertise together with commercial experience bringing medical imaging software to market. He was a Professor of Mathematics and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Bremen and Florida Atlantic University. He founded and directed the research center Fraunhofer MEVIS, Institute for Digital Medicine, and founded the company MeVis Medical Imaging AG, which has been on the German stock market since 2007. During his long-standing career, he pioneered medical imaging in oncology, as well as neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases.