Professor Dr Alfred Michael Franz

For English-speaking visitors: Prof. Franz is also involved in his research projects at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg. There you will find an English-language website describing his career (link to English page).

Alfred M. Franz has been Professor of Medical Informatics at Ulm University of Technology since 2017. Prior to this, he was a researcher and deputy head of the research group in the Department of Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions at the German Cancer Research Centre (Heidelberg). He has published numerous scientific papers and has served on the programme committees of the prestigious international conferences International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) and International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions (IPCAI). He is a reviewer for several scientific journals, such as *Medical Physics* and the *International Journal of Computer-Assisted Radiology and Surgery*. Prof. Franz is particularly committed to actively involving students in the scientific community, for example through joint participation in specialist conferences (example on LinkedIn).

At Ulm University of Technology, Prof. Franz teaches programming, algorithms and data structures, as well as computer graphics, on Bachelor’s degree programmes. He also conducts research alongside students in the field of navigated medical interventions, which is also the subject of his Master’s lecture. His laboratory carries out projects on the localisation of medical instruments (tracking), ultrasound imaging and augmented reality for medical interventions.

Prof. Franz publishes news on research projects, including up-to-date images from the laboratory, on a Mastodon microblog (link: https://mastodon.social/@Alfred_M_Franz).