Felienne Hermans

Felienne Hermans, Felienne (/Fay-lee-nuh/), is a scientist working at Leiden University as an associate professor.[1] Her research interest include programming education[2][3][4] and spreadsheets. [5][6][7][8][9]

Felienne Hermans
Felienne Hermans in 2018
Alma materEindhoven University of Technology
Delft University of Technology
Known forProgramming education
Spreadsheets
AwardsSURF Education Award
Open Education Award for Excellence
Tech Inspirator Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsLeiden University
Delft University of Technology

Academic career

Hermans received her MSc in computer science from Eindhoven University of Technology, and her PhD in software engineering in 2013 from Delft University of Technology. Following that she was an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology [10][11] , heading the Spreadsheet Lab.[12]

Currently Hermans is head of the Programming Education Research Lab[13] (PERL).

Business

Hermans is the founder and former CEO of Infotron, a spinoff company of TU Delft that implements risk assessment software for spreadsheets.[14]

Hermans is active with DigiLeerkracht, the computational thinking teaching by Future.nl,[15] and teaches programming,[16] including one day a week at the Lyceum Kralingen in Rotterdam.[17] In addition, Hermans is a referee at the FIRST LEGO League, where children build a robot from LEGO.[18] [19] She was a board member at Devnology Nederland,[20] an organisation for software developers. She is a co-organiser of the yearly conference Joy of Coding.[21]

Outreach

In 2011 Hermans gave a TED talk in Delft about the question: What Archimedes has to say about spreadsheets?[22] Hermans regularly gives talks about her research at conferences including StrangeLoop,[23] NDC,[24][25][26] GOTO[27][28][29] and DDD Europe[30] a conference about Domain-driven design. Since 2016, she is also one of the hosts of SE Radio.[31][32]

In addition she started a project, where all elementary students in Rotterdam receive four programming lessons.[33]

Hermans produced several MOOCs, with topics including programming in Scratch for teachers and children, available on edX.[34] She also published a free e-book about the creation of games for children.[35]

In 2020, Hermans launched the Hedy programming language, to teach children Python in a gradual way. [36]

Awards

Hermans' online course "Data Analysis: Take it to the MAX", has been awarded the Wharton-QS gold education award in the category Regional Award Europe; the prize for the best education innovation project entry in Europe.[37][38][39]

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Hermans won the SURF Education Award in 2017, SURF being the collaborative ICT organisation for Dutch education and research.[41][42][43][44]

In 2018, the Open Education Consortium awarded her the Open Education Award for Excellence.[45] Also in 2018, Hermans won the Tech Inspirator Award at the Techionista Awards.[46]

gollark: When someone makes a cool slightly pun-ish name for the integration.
gollark: It's hardly going to be worse than use of Lua.
gollark: …?
gollark: Well, there goes my evil plan to use amulet for a project.
gollark: Amulet question: is there some easy way to, say, decode JSON? I know libraries for it exist but can you wrap them easily and safely?

References
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  3. "Programming for everyone". Instant Magazine. TU Delft. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  4. Johannes Visser (2017-10-11). "Deze onderzoeker vindt dat ieder kind moet programmeren". De Correspondent. De Correspondent. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  5. Rebecca Burn-Callander (2015-04-07). "Stupid errors in spreadsheets could lead to Britain's next corporate disaster". The Telegraph. The Telegraph. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  6. Rebecca Burn-Callander (2015-04-07). "Companies could lose billions because of crappy spreadsheets". The Telegraph. The Telegraph. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  7. Lisa Pollack (2016-07-19). "Escaping the spreadsheet cell". Financial Times. Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  8. Jason Shueh (2014-03-03). "Why Spreadsheets Stink — and 4 Ways to Improve Them". The Telegraph. The Telegraph. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  9. Ian Bennett FCA (2016-12-01). "Excel threatened by new technology". Acuity. Acuity. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
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  12. "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.
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  14. "Felienne Hermans – CEO of Infotron". IdeaMensch. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
  15. "LEERLIJN DIGITALE GELETTERDHEID". futurenl.org (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-04-27.
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  17. "Lyceum Kralingen" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-03-21.
  18. "FIRST® LEGO® League" (in Dutch). Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  19. Rolf Hut (2015-01-24). "Lego-nakomelingen". Volkskrant (in Dutch). Volkskrant. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
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  22. "TEDxDelft - Felienne Hermans - What Archimedes has to say about spreadsheets". TEDx Talks. 2011-11-29.
  23. Strange Loop (2014-09-21). ""Spreadsheets for developers" by Felienne Hermans".
  24. NDC Conferences (2016-04-09). "NDC London 2016 • Functional programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans".
  25. NDC Conferences (2017-06-05). "NDC Olso 2017 • Programming is writing is programming • Felienne Hermans".
  26. NDC Conferences (2018-02-07). "NDC 2018 • Keynote: What is programming anyway? • Felienne Hermans".
  27. GOTO Conferences (2016-04-21). "GOTO 2015 • Spreadsheets for Developers • Felienne Hermans".
  28. GOTO Conferences (2016-08-09). "GOTO 2016 • Pure Functional Programming in Excel • Felienne Hermans".
  29. GOTO Conferences (2017-06-20). "GOTO 2017 • Teaching Children about Clean Code • Felienne Hermans".
  30. "Felienne Hermans — A board game night with geeks". Domain-Driven Design Europe. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  31. "Team : Software Engineering Radio". SE Radio. 1 January 2010. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
  32. Hermans, Felienne (15 May 2017). "Peter Hilton on Naming". IEEE Software. IEEE. 34 (3): 117–120. doi:10.1109/MS.2017.81.
  33. Maarten Ritman (2017-05-03). "Programmeerles op basisscholen" (in Dutch). De Telegraaf. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  34. "Felienne Hermans". edX. 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  35. Scratch: Maak je eigen games – Simple Book Production. felienne.pressbooks.com. ISBN 9789461867025. Retrieved 2019-03-20.
  36. "Hedy". Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  37. TU Delft (2016-01-19). "Onderwijsprijs voor online cursus Felienne Hermans" (in Dutch). Emerce. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  38. "Data Analysis: Take it to the MAX". TU Delft. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
  39. "ONLINE CURSUS 'DATA ANALYSIS' IS BESTE ONDERWIJSINNOVATIEPROJECT IN EUROPA" (in Dutch). Nationale Onderwijsgids. 2016-01-20. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
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  43. "Innovatieve TU-docente wint SURF Onderwijsaward". AD. 10 November 2017. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
  44. "SURF Onderwijsawards 2017 - Felienne Hermans". Coöperatie SURF. 2017-11-06. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
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