Dr Alexander Seitel is a computer scientist currently working as a group lead and deputy head at the Division of Computer Assisted Medical Interventions at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg. He received his Doctorate in Medical Informatics from the University of Heidelberg and holds a Diploma in Computer Science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His research focusses on computer-assisted interventions and novel imaging methodologies aiming to improve interventional healthcare. In this area, he conducted various international projects at DKFZ, during his two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA and is currently leading an effort to clinical translation of one of the developed assistance solutions.