Gerhard Tech received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen Uni­versity of Technology, Ger­many, where he has been in­volved in medical image processing. Half of a year of his stu­dies he was an intern with BCS electronic design, Syd­ney, Australia.

He joined the Heinrich Hertz Institute as Research Associate in 2008. From 2008 to 2011 he was involved in the European re­search project Mobile 3DTV. Since 2011 he is mainly involved in the standardization of multiview and 3D extensions of H.265/HEVC. He has contributed successfully to the stan­dard­ization activities of the Joint Collaborative Team on 3D Video Coding Extension De­vel­op­ment (JCT-3V) of ITU-T VCEG and ISO/IEC MPEG. He chairs several ad hoc groups of the JCT-3V and is appointed as editor of the Multiview Video Coding Extension of ITU-T H.265 and ISO/IEC 23008-2 (MV-HEVC), as editor of the 3D Video Coding Extension of ITU-T H.265 and ISO/IEC 23008-2 (3D-HEVC), and as coordinator of the 3D- and MV-HEVC reference software HTM.

His research interests are mainly in video and image coding and processing, including 3D re­pre­sentations. In particular he is interested in encoder optimization and distortion metrics for coding of depth data.