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Christian Baumgartner is Assistant Professor for Health Data Science at the Faculty of Health Sciences. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and his Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering at ETH Zurich. In 2016, he completed his doctorate in Biomedical Engineering at King's College London. From 2017-2019, postdoctoral positions took him to Imperial College London and back to ETH Zurich. After a year in industry working on augmented reality applications at PTC Vuforia, in 2021, he took over as head of an independent research group at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on applications of artificial intelligence and data science in medicine. To ensure the safe integration of these technologies into everyday clinical practice, he designs customised machine learning algorithms that are specifically tailored to tackle specific medical challenges.