Christos Bergeles is Reader of Surgical Robotics at the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences of King’s College London. His research interests include micro-surgical robotics and interventional visual servoing. He leads the Robotics and Vision in Medicine (RViM) Lab, which develops robotic systems and multi-sensory guidance algorithms to achieve impossible interventions deep inside the human body. Dr. Bergeles received the Fight for Sight Award in 2014, and the ERC Starting Grant in 2016.

Christos received the M.Sc. Degree from the National Technical Univesity of Athens, and the Ph.D. degree in Robotics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2011. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, and the Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College, United Kingdom. Further, he was an Assistant Professor at the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences of University College London.