Klaus Maier-Hein heads the Division of Medical Image Computing at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Section of Automated Image Analysis at Heidelberg University Hospital. After studying computer science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne he received his PhD in computer science in 2010 from the University of Heidelberg, followed by postdoctoral work at DKFZ and Harvard Medical School. His research is focused on deep learning methodology in the context of medical image analysis and the development of research software infrastructure for efficient translation of results.