Prof. Dr. Bert Arnrich is Chair of the Digital Health - Connected Healthcare research group at the joint Digital-Engineering Faculty of Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the University of Potsdam. Arnrich’s research aims to pave the way for transforming healthcare systems from purely managing illness to maintaining wellness. He foresees ubiquitous sensing and computing technologies as the key enabler for pushing the paradigm shift from the established provider-centric healthcare model to a user-centered and preventive overall lifestyle health management that is widely available to anyone at anytime.

Arnrich studied Informatics in the Natural Sciences at Bielefeld University. His PhD thesis implemented an early big data approach that collects and consolidates patient data for scientific data analysis. At ETH Zurich, Arnrich established and headed the research group Pervasive Healthcare in the Wearable Computing Laboratory. He received a Marie Curie Cofound Fellowship from the European Union and was appointed to tenure track professorship at the Computer Engineering Department at Bosporus University. He also served as a Science Manager for Emerging Technologies at Accenture Technology Solutions.