Lectio Magistralis. AI for Future Healthcare: Healing with Health Data

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Lecture infos

School: XLV Annual School 2026 – Generative Artificial Intelligence for Bioengineering

Date: 09.09.2026 - 14:45

Speaker

Bjoern Eskofier

LMU Munich

Prof. Dr. Björn M. Eskofier (SM, IEEE) is Director of the Institute for AI in Medicine at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU). Until September 2025, he led the Machine Learning and Data Analytics (MaD) Lab at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). His research focuses on artificial intelligence, digital biomarkers, and data-driven methods for preventive and personalized healthcare. Eskofier served as founding spokesperson of FAU’s Department Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering (AIBE) and was co-director of the German Research Foundation Collaborative Research Center EmpkinS. He is also Associate Principal Investigator at Helmholtz Munich, where he leads the research group Translational Digital Health. He studied Electrical Engineering at FAU and received his PhD in Biomechanics from the University of Calgary. Eskofier has authored more than 600 scientific publications, holds several patents, and founded as well as supported multiple digital health startups. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School, the MIT Media Lab, and Stanford University. His work aims to build a digital health ecosystem in which AI supports better medical decisions and advances preventive, personalized medicine.