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H. Schotte is a leading researcher in the field of minimally invasive hepatobiliary surgery, with a primary focus on comparing robotic and laparoscopic approaches for complex liver resections. Their major contributions center on providing high-quality, evidence-based data to determine whether the robotic platform offers tangible advantages over conventional laparoscopy for technically demanding procedures. Through a series of landmark, international multicenter studies, Schotte has systematically evaluated outcomes for major hepatectomies, including right and extended right hepatectomy (120 citations), left and extended left hepatectomy (57 citations), and challenging segmental resections such as right posterior sectionectomy (74 citations) and limited resections in the posterosuperior segments (45 citations). Their work consistently employs rigorous propensity score-matched and coarsened exact-matched analyses to minimize selection bias, providing robust comparisons of perioperative outcomes. By demonstrating the safety and feasibility of both techniques while highlighting potential benefits of the robotic approach in specific contexts, Schotte’s research has directly informed surgical decision-making and advanced the adoption of minimally invasive techniques in liver surgery. Their cumulative work, with over 300 citations, represents a foundational contribution to the ongoing debate between robotic and laparoscopic liver surgery.