Prof. Dr. Markus Gross

Markus Gross is a professor of computer science at ETH Zurich, head of the Computer Graphics Laboratory and the director of Disney Research Zurich. For more than 20 years he has been pursuing basic and applied research in computer graphics, image generation and display, geometric modeling, and computer animation. His research interests include point-based graphics, physically-based modeling, immersive displays, and 3D video. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and he holds various patents on core graphics and visualization technologies.

Since 1994, Markus Gross continues to develop and to refine the graduate teaching program in computer graphics at ETH and he has been teaching various undergraduate classes in computer science. He serves as a member of international program committees of the most important conferences in his field and chaired various scientific committees, most notably the papers committee of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005. He received a Master of Science in electrical and computer engineering and a Ph.D. in computer graphics and image analysis, both from Saarland University in Germany. From 1990 to 1994, he was a senior researcher at the Computer Graphics Center in Darmstadt, where he established and directed the Visual Computing Group.

Markus Gross is a member of ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH, a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE, and a fellow of the Eurographics Association. From 2002-2006 he was a member of the ETH research commission. Prof. Gross serves on the boards of numerous international research institutes, societies, and governmental organizations. He also co-founded Cyfex AG, Novodex AG, LiberoVision AG, and Dybuster AG.