She was a frequent speaker at international conferences and a columnist for the quarterly journal, Understanding Our Gifted.
Gross graduated from Purdue University with her PhD thesis being titled "Children of exceptional intellectual potential: Their origin and development".
[1] Her 1993 book Exceptionally Gifted Children presents fifteen subjects selected from a longitudinal study of 40 Australian children with IQs in excess of 160, including Fields Medal recipient Terence Tao among others.
Gross won five international research awards and held the position of President of the Gifted and Talented Children's Association of South Australia for six years.
From 1995 to 1999 she served on the seven-person Executive of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children.