My name is Linda bij de Leij and I work at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), in the Netherlands. There, I'm a communication officer for the Data Science Center in Health (DASH) and the Research IT-programme. For the Covid19Challenge I will, among other things, keep you updated on the progress of the challenge through the website, social media and email updates. I am happy to join the team!

Fausto Milletarì is the Applied AI Lead at Verb Surgical Inc. For the Covid19Challenge, he is the mastermind behind the whole Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Eisen infrastructure that is making this challenge possible.

Thomas Heiliger works at Brainlab for several years and has deep inside in digital surgery and medicine from an industry point of view.

In addition, he is working at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München on his doctoral thesis on a scientific project related to research in the field of augmented reality in minimally invasive abdominal surgery. The preparation and autonomous enrichment of medical image data with 3D objects are one of his fields of research.

Regarding the challenge, he will be taking part in the labeling process of the data and push collaboration with external industry partners.

Szilard Szabo is a doctor of medical informatics and a physician in training at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, as well as team leader digital biobank at M3i Industry-in-Clinic Platform. For the Covid19Challenge, he is responsible for the data teams and helping the clinics to transfer their data.

Annika Reinke is a PhD student at the DKFZ German Cancer Research Center under the supervision of Prof. Lena Maier-Hein, one of the scientific advisors in our challenge. She is specializing in formal guidelines - the do's and don'ts - of public challenge design, which is also how she will contribute to the Covid19Challenge.