Marc Pollefeys elected member of Academia Europaea
For his outstanding achievements as a researcher, Professor Marc Pollefeys has been elected a member of Academia Europaea. Congratulations!
Marc Pollefeys, professor at the Department of Computer Science and head of the Computer Vision and Geometry Group, has been invited to become a member of the prestigious Academia Europaea for his outstanding achievements in his research field. The Academy's primary objective is to foster European research, provide scientific counsel to governments and international organisations and advance interdisciplinary and global research efforts.
Marc Pollefeys is a full professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and the Director of the Microsoft Mixed Reality and AI Lab, where he works with a team of scientists and engineers to develop advanced perception capabilities for HoloLens and Mixed Reality. He obtained his Ph.D. from the KU Leuven in 1999 and was a professor at UNC Chapel Hill before joining ETH Zurich.
He is best known for his contributions to the field of 3D computer vision, where he achieved a significant milestone by pioneering a software pipeline that automates the conversion of photographs into 3D models. Additionally, he actively engages in research on robotics, graphics, and machine learning, tackling various challenging problems in these domains. Among his noteworthy projects are real-time 3D scanning using mobile devices, developing a live pipeline for reconstructing 3D models of cities from vehicle-mounted cameras, designing camera-based autonomous vehicles, and creating the first fully independent drone relying solely on vision-based navigation. Most recently his academic research has focused on combining 3D reconstruction with semantic scene understanding.
Marc Pollefeys has received several prizes for his research, including a Google Focus Award (2020), a Sony Faculty Innovation Award (2020) and an ERC Starting Grant (2008), just to name a few. In 2012, he was elected Fellow of the IEEE and in 2022, he has been named ACM Fellow.
About the Academia Europaea
The Academia Europaea was established in 1988 through the joint efforts of the UK's Royal Society and other National Academies in Europe. It is a registered charitable organisation in the UK, operating as a not-for-profit entity. Distinguishing itself, the Academia Europaea is the sole academy that welcomes individual members from Council of Europe states and numerous other countries worldwide. Presently, their membership consists of approximately 6000 exceptional scientists and scholars who represent diverse academic fields across the globe.