Dorit Merhof received the Diploma degree in computer science and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical image analysis from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. After two years with Siemens Molecular Imaging, Oxford, U.K., she joined the University of Konstanz, Germany, as an Assistant Professor in visual computing. From 2013 to 2022, she was a Full Professor and the Head of the Institute of Imaging and Computer Vision, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Since October 2022, she has been a Full Professor at the Faculty of Informatics and Data Science, University of Regensburg, Germany. Her research interests include acquisition, processing, and visualization of image data originating from various biomedical and industrial applications.