Felienne Hermans

Félienne Hermans
Félienne Hermans in 2018
Born
Felienne Frederieke Johanna Hermans

1984 (age 40–41)[2]
Alma materEindhoven University of Technology (MSc)
Delft University of Technology (PhD)
Known forSpreadsheets
Scientific career
FieldsProgramming education
End-user computing[1]
InstitutionsVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Leiden University
Delft University of Technology
ThesisAnalyzing and visualizing spreadsheets (2013)
Websitewww.felienne.com Edit this at Wikidata

Félienne Frederieke Johanna Hermans (/Fay-lee-nuh/, born 1984)[2] is a scientist and Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.[3][4][5] Her research interests include programming education[6][7][8][9] and end-user computing[1] particularly spreadsheets.[10][11][12][13][14]

Education

Hermans received her Master of Science degree in computer science from Eindhoven University of Technology,[when?][citation needed] and her PhD in software engineering in 2013 from Delft University of Technology.[15]

Career and research

After her PhD, she was appointed an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology,[16][17] heading the Spreadsheet Lab.[18]

As of 2024 Hermans is head of the Programming Education Research Lab (PERL).[19]

Hermans is the founder and former CEO of Infotron, a research spin-off company of TU Delft that implements risk assessment software for spreadsheets.[citation needed]

Hermans is active with DigiLeerkracht, the computational thinking teaching by Future.nl,[20] and teaches programming,[21] including one day a week at the Lyceum Kralingen in Rotterdam.[22] In addition, Hermans is a referee at the FIRST Lego League Challenge, where children build a robot from Lego.[23] [24] She served as a board member at Devnology Nederland,[25] an organisation for software developers. She is a co-organiser of the yearly conference Joy of Coding.[26]

Outreach

In 2011, Hermans gave a TEDx talk in Delft.[27] Hermans has given research talks at conferences including StrangeLoop,[28] NDC,[29][30][31] GOTO,[32][33][34] and DDD Europe,[35] a conference about domain-driven design. Since 2016, she is a host of SE Radio.[36][37]

Hermans produced several Massive open online courses (MOOCs) on edX, with topics including programming in Scratch for teachers and children.[38] She self-published an e-book about the creation of games for children.[39] In 2017, she started a program for Rotterdam elementary students to receive programming lessons.[40] In 2020, Hermans launched the Hedy programming language, to teach children to use the Python programming language.[41][42]

She is the author of The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition.[6]

Awards and honours

Hermans' online data analysis course was awarded the Wharton-QS gold education award for best education innovation project entry in Europe.[43][44][45][better source needed]

Hermans won the SURF Education Award in 2017, SURF being the collaborative Information and communications technology (ICT) organisation for Dutch education and research.[46][47][48][49]

In 2018, the Open Education Consortium awarded her the Open Education Award for Excellence.[50] Also in 2018, Hermans won the Tech Inspirator Award at the Techionista Awards.[51]

References

  1. ^ a b Felienne Hermans publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b ISNI 0000000419580391
  3. ^ Felienne Hermans at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Felienne Hermans publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Félienne's ORCID 0000-0003-0722-0156
  6. ^ a b Hermans, Félienne (2021). The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition. Manning. ISBN 9781617298677. OCLC 1244535535.
  7. ^ "Programming for everyone". instantmagazine.com. TU Delft. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  8. ^ Visser, Johannes (2017-10-11). "Deze onderzoeker vindt dat ieder kind moet programmeren". decorrespondent.nl. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  9. ^ Brown, Neil C.C.; Hermans, Felienne F.J.; Margulieux, Lauren (2023). "10 Things Software Developers Should Learn about Learning". Communications of the ACM. 67 (1). Association for Computing Machinery: 78–87. doi:10.1145/3584859.
  10. ^ Burn-Callander, Rebecca (2015-04-07). "Stupid errors in spreadsheets could lead to Britain's next corporate disaster". telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  11. ^ Burn-Callander, Rebecca (2015-04-07). "Companies could lose billions because of crappy spreadsheets". telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  12. ^ Pollack, Lisa (2016-07-19). "Escaping the spreadsheet cell". ft.com. Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  13. ^ Shueh, Jason (2014-03-03). "Why Spreadsheets Stink — and 4 Ways to Improve Them". telegraph.co.uk. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  14. ^ Ian Bennett FCA (2016-12-01). "Excel threatened by new technology". acuitymag.com. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  15. ^ Hermans, Félienne Frederieke Johanna (2013). Analyzing and visualizing spreadsheets. tudelft.nl (PhD thesis). Delft University of Technology. doi:10.4233/uuid:3a3ea534-68df-44a5-8a2d-411826d0335a. OCLC 905869356.
  16. ^ "Felienne Hermans". TU Delft. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  17. ^ "Felienne Hermans: "Programmeren is Macht!"". Brinkman Uitgeverij. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  18. ^ "Teaching Excel and data analysis—one professor's efforts to prepare students for today's careers". Microsoft 365. Microsoft. 6 April 2015. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  19. ^ "Homepage of the Programming Education Research Lab". perl.liacs.nl.
  20. ^ "LEERLIJN DIGITALE GELETTERDHEID". futurenl.org (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  21. ^ "Felienne Hermans: "Programmeren is Macht!"". Brinkman Uitgeverij. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  22. ^ "Lyceum Kralingen" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  23. ^ "FIRST® LEGO League" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  24. ^ Rolf Hut (2015-01-24). "Lego-nakomelingen". volkskrant.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  25. ^ "Devnology". devnology.nl. Archived from the original on 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  26. ^ "Joy of Coding 2019". joyofcoding.org. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  27. ^ "TEDxDelft - Felienne Hermans - What Archimedes has to say about spreadsheets". TEDx Talks. 2011-11-29.
  28. ^ Strange Loop (2014-09-21). ""Spreadsheets for developers" by Felienne Hermans". YouTube.
  29. ^ NDC Conferences (2016-04-09). "NDC London 2016 • Functional programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans".
  30. ^ NDC Conferences (2017-06-05). "NDC Olso 2017 • Programming is writing is programming • Felienne Hermans". YouTube.
  31. ^ NDC Conferences (2018-02-07). "NDC 2018 • Keynote: What is programming anyway? • Felienne Hermans".
  32. ^ GOTO Conferences (2016-04-21). "GOTO 2015 • Spreadsheets for Developers • Felienne Hermans". YouTube.
  33. ^ GOTO Conferences (2016-08-09). "GOTO 2016 • Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans". YouTube.
  34. ^ GOTO Conferences (2017-06-20). "GOTO 2017 • Teaching Children about Clean Code • Felienne Hermans". YouTube.
  35. ^ "Felienne Hermans — A board game night with geeks". Domain-Driven Design Europe. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  36. ^ "Team : Software Engineering Radio". SE Radio. 1 January 2010. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  37. ^ Hermans, Felienne (15 May 2017). "Peter Hilton on Naming". IEEE Software. 34 (3). IEEE: 117–120. doi:10.1109/MS.2017.81. S2CID 27026340.
  38. ^ "Felienne Hermans". edx.org. 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  39. ^ Scratch: Maak je eigen games – Simple Book Production. pressbooks.com. ISBN 9789461867025. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  40. ^ Maarten Ritman (2017-05-03). "Programmeerles op basisscholen" (in Dutch). De Telegraaf. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  41. ^ Hermans, Felienne (February 2021). "Learning text-based programming with Hedy". helloworld.raspberrypi.org.
  42. ^ "Felienne Hermans receives Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2021 | NWO". nwo.nl. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
  43. ^ TU Delft (2016-01-19). "Onderwijsprijs voor online cursus Felienne Hermans" (in Dutch). Emerce. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  44. ^ "ONLINE CURSUS 'DATA ANALYSIS' IS BESTE ONDERWIJSINNOVATIEPROJECT IN EUROPA" (in Dutch). Nationale Onderwijsgids. 2016-01-20. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  45. ^ "SURF onderwijsprijs voor Felienne Hermans". TU Delft. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  46. ^ "Felienne Hermans wins SURF Education Award". TU Delft. 2017-11-21. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  47. ^ "SURF onderwijsprijs voor Felienne Hermans". TU Delft. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  48. ^ "Innovatieve TU-docente wint SURF Onderwijsaward". AD. 10 November 2017. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  49. ^ "SURF Onderwijsawards 2017 - Felienne Hermans". Coöperatie SURF. 2017-11-06. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  50. ^ "Felienne Hermans won the Open Education Award for Excellence". TU Delft. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  51. ^ "Felienne Hermans | Techionista Awards" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-03-20.