Markus Gross

Markus Gross is a Vice president of research of the Walt Disney Company and director of the Zurich research laboratory. He is also a Professor of Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH). His research interests include media technology and computer animation. Gross serves on the boards of numerous international research institutes, societies, and governmental organizations. He is a fellow of the ACM and of the EUROGRAPHICS Association and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina as well as the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2013 he received a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Konrad Zuse Medal of GI, and the Karl Heinz Beckurts price.