Steffen Härtel was born in Frankfurt (Germany)

Steffen Härtel was born in Frankfurt (Germany) and studied physics at the University Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (Frankfurt, Germany), at the Universidad de Córdoba (Argentina), at the
Universidad Austral de Chile (Valdivia, Chile), and at the University of Bremen (Germany). He
received fellowships of the DAAD and the Bremer Studienfonds. His Ph.D. thesis was honored with
summa cum laude and received the ´Bremer Studienpreis´ in combination with the special award
of the Bruker Daltonik GmbH. In 2000/2001. He worked as principal investigator at the TZI (Center
for Technology and Informatics, Bremen, Germany), financed by the DfG. Between 2001 and 2003,
he received a Feodor Lynen Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) in
combination with a postdoctoral fellowship of CONICET (Argentina) and worked in Bruno Maggio
laboratory’s at the CIQUIBIQ (Córdoba, Argentina). In May of 2003, he joined the laboratory of
Felipe Barros at the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS, Valdivia, Chile) with a 3-year
postdoctoral fellowship financed by FONDECYT. Since 2006, he is leading the Laboratory of
Scientific Image Processing (SCIAN-Lab) at the Medical Faculty of the University of Chile as an
associated professor. He is a member of the Biomedical Neuroscience Institute (BNI), founder of
CEDAI SpA, and director of different research, R&D, and academic programs within biomedical
computer science.