Luc Van Gool received the degree in electromechanical engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in 1981.

Currently, he is a professor with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland.

He leads computer vision research with both places, and also teaches at both. He has been a program committee member of several major computer vision conferences.

His main research interests include 3D reconstruction and modeling, object recognition, tracking, and gesture analysis, and the combination of those.

He received several Best Paper awards, won a David Marr Prize and a Koenderink Award, and was nominated Distinguished Researcher by the IEEE Computer Science committee. He is a co-founder of 10 spin-off companies.

In 2023, he was elected as member of the European Academy of Engineering.