In 2013 Thomas Pock received the START price of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the German Pattern recognition award of the German association for pattern recognition (DAGM). In 2019, he became a member (reporter) of the board of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for the section computer science. The focus of his research is image processing, computer vision, inverse problems, convex and non-smooth optimization, and machine learning.