Eric Bodden (born 20 February 1980 in

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

) is a German

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

. He holds the Chair of Secure Software Engineering at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the Paderborn University and is Director of Software Engineering and IT Security at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Design (IEM). He is also head of the engineering department in the Collaborative Research Centre 1119 CROSSING at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Career

Bodden's undergraduate studies consist of a computer science degree at

RWTH Aachen University RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

.Prof. Eric Bodden, Ph.D.
/ref> His thesis won the 2005 undergraduate category of the ACM Student Research Competition. From 2006 to 2009, Bodden did a PhD at McGill University. From 2009 to 2015, Eric Bodden worked at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Since the summer of 2013, Bodden has held a cooperative professorship at the ''Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology'' and the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Since 2016, Bodden has worked at the ''Heinz Nixdorf Institute'' at the

University of Paderborn Paderborn University (german: Universität Paderborn) is one of the fourteen public research universities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It was founded in 1972 and 20,308 students were enrolled at the university in the winter ...

and been a director for software engineering and IT security at the ''Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design''. Bodden is a member of the BITKOM Management Club, Distinguished Member of the

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and the ''Gesellschaft für Informatik''.

Awards

In 2014, Eric Bodden received the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the

German Research Foundation The German Research Foundation (german: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ; DFG ) is a German research funding organization, which functions as a self-governing institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germ ...

. The Technische Universität Darmstadt team placed second in the 2014 ''German IT Security Award'' from the Horst Görtz Foundation and the first place in 2016. In 2019, Bodden was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist. Five of his publications have received the ACM Distinguished Paper Award. Three of his previous doctoral students received the Ernst Denert Prize for Software Engineering.

Weblinks

Personal Website Eric Bodden

Chair for Secure Software Engineering at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute

References

External links

Homepage Eric Bodden
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