Bernhard Preim

Bernhard Preim is a specialist in human–computer interface design as well as in visual computing for medicine.
He is currently professor of visualization at University of Magdeburg, Germany.
Preim received the diploma in computer science in 1994 and a PhD in 1998 from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. In 1999, he joined the staff of MeVis. In close collaboration with radiologists and surgeons, he directed the work on "computer-aided planning in liver surgery" and initiated several projects funded by the German Research Council in the area of computer-aided surgery. In June 2002, he received the Habilitation degree for computer science from the University of Bremen. Since Mars 2003 he is full professor for "Visualization" at the computer science department at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, heading a research group which is focussed on medical visualization and applications in surgical education and surgery planning. These developments are summarized in a comprehensive textbook Visualization in Medicine, which appeared at Morgan Kaufmann in June 2007.