Dr. Charles Baur is group leader of the VRAI Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and is vice-president and head of research and development at Baur SA (Sauges, Switzerland). He supports Atracsys in the fields of minimally invasive surgery, virtual reality and intelligent user interfaces, in particular for medical applications as well as advanced calibration techniques.

Professor Dr. Nolte heads the Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics (MEMSTB) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Nolte is known as one of the major forces in the development of new and innovative solutions in the areas of computer assisted surgery.

The MEMSTB has chosen the Atracsys system for development of a patented image-guided surgical microscope in computer assisted ENT, Maxillofacial and Neurosurgery applications.

Professor Dr. Jean-Philippe Thiran is the director of the Computer Vision and Image Analysis Group (LTS5) at the Signal Processing Institute of the EPFL. His current scientific interests focus on medical image analysis, including multimodal image registration, segmentation, computer-assisted surgery and diffusion MRI.

The LTS5 has chosen to combine their outstanding planification algorithms with the Atracsys neuro-navigation suite.

Dr. Zambelli is a specialist in orthopedic surgery at the Orthopedic Hospital of Western Switzerland (L?HOSR) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He specializes in children?s orthopedic surgery and neuro-orthopedic interventions. As well, Dr. Zambelli is called upon to handle complex reconstructive orthopedic surgery of the lower limbs, especially in the area of hip surgery. In addition to his teaching duties, Dr. Zambelli has a strong commitment to researching new and innovative techniques of orthopedic surgery and as such, he is an active Member of the Orthopedic Research Division of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).