Benjamin Weixler is a senior attending doctor in general surgery at Charité University Berlin. He is clinically active and the head of colorectal surgery, with a strong focus on inflammatory bowel disease. As a principal investigator, he focuses on image-guided surgical methods in clinical and laboratory-based studies. Dr. Weixler trained in general surgery at the University of Basel and conducted part of his postdoctoral research at the University of Leiden Medical Center, with a focus on oncology and fluorescence-based, image-guided methods. He is a fellow of the European College of Surgeons.