Prof. em. Dr. Gábor Székely

Gabor Székely has been senior researcher at the Computer Vision Laboratory of the ETH Zurich since 1991, becoming the Head of the Medical Image Analysis and Visualization Group holding the title of a Professor after March 2000. He was elected to Associate Professor in 2002 and to full Professor in 2008. He retired from active research in 2016.

Gábor Székely was born in 1951 in Budapest, Hungary and graduated from the Technical University of Budapest in chemical engineering in 1974 and from the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest in Applied Mathematics in 1981. He obtained his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 1985 from the Technical University of Budapest. Between 1974 and 1986 he has been working at the Computer Department of the Institute of Isotopes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, since 1985 as the Head of the Department, focusing on automatic structure elucidation of organic compounds. Between 1986 and 1990 he developed computer support systems for the chemical and biomedical applications of magnetic resonance at Bruker Spectrospin.

Between 2001 and 2013 he was Director of the National Center of Competence in Research on Computer Aided and Image Guided Medical Interventions (NCCR Co-Me). His major research interest is developing algorithms and clinical systems for the optimal computer support of medical diagnosis, therapy, training and education.