Marcus Magnor heads the Computer Graphics Lab of the Computer Science Department at Technische Universität Braunschweig (TU Braunschweig).

He received his BA (1995) and MS (1997) in Physics from the University of Würzburg and the University of New Mexico, respectively, and his PhD (2000) in Electrical Engineering from the Telecommunications Lab at the University of Erlangen. For his post-graduate studies, he joined the Computer Graphics Lab at Stanford University. In 2002, he established the Independent Research Group Graphics-Optics-Vision at the Max-Planck-Institut Informatik in Saarbrücken. He completed his habilitation and received the venia legendi in Computer Science from Saarland University in 2005. In 2009, he was Fulbright Scholar at the University of New Mexico's Computer Science Department.

His research interests concern the visual information processing pipeline, from image formation, acquisition, and analysis to image synthesis, display, perception, and cognition. Areas of research include visual computing, applied visual perception, computational photography, applied optics and imaging, visualization, and image processing (research).