Tamás Haidegger graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) with degrees in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering in 2006 and 2008, and a PhD in 2011. His main research interests are surgical robot guidance/teleoperation, image-guided therapy and assistive medical technologies. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the University of Óbuda, Director of the University Centre for Research, Innovation and Services, and Technical Manager of Medical Robotics Research at the Antal Bejczy Intelligent Robotics Centre. He is also Head of Research at the Austrian Centre for Medical Innovation and Technology (ACMIT), working on minimally invasive surgical simulation and training, medical robotics and usability/workflow evaluation through ontologies. Thomas is co-founder of the university spin-off HandInScan, focusing on objective hand hygiene control in the medical environment. He is an active member of several other professional organizations including IEEE Robotics an Automation Society, IEEE SMC, IEEE EMBC and euRobotics aisbl. He is a national delegate to the ISO/IEC standards committee focusing on safety and performance of medical robots. For ten years he has maintained a professional blog on medical robot technologies: surgrob.blogspot.com. He is a national delegate to the ISO/IEC Standards Committee, which focuses on the safety and performance of medical robots. Ten years of professional blogging on medical robot technologies: surgrob.blogspot.com. He is a national delegate to the ISO/IEC Standards Committee, which focuses on the safety and performance of medical robots. Ten years of professional blogging on medical robot technologies: surgrob.blogspot.com