Eric Bodden
German computer scientist
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Eric Bodden (born 1980 in Aachen) is a German computer scientist. He holds the Chair of Secure Software Engineering at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the Paderborn University[1] and is Director of Software Engineering and IT Security at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Design (IEM).[2] He is also head of the engineering department in the Collaborative Research Centre 1119 CROSSING at the Technical University of Darmstadt.[3]
- Paderborn University (since 2016– )
- Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Design (IEM)
- Technische Universität Darmstadt
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| Born | 1980 (age 45–46) |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
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Career
Bodden's undergraduate studies consist of a computer science degree at RWTH Aachen University with an exchange year at the University of Kent.[4] His diploma thesis won the 2005 undergraduate category of the ACM Student Research Competition.[5] From 2006 to 2009, Bodden did a PhD at McGill University.[4][6]
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.[4][6]
Since 2016, Bodden has worked at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at the University of Paderborn and been a director for software engineering and IT security at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design, a research institute of the Fraunhofer Society.[4][6]
Awards
Bodden is a member of Acatech,[7] the BITKOM Management Club,[8] and the Gesellschaft für Informatik.
In 2024, the European Research Council awarded Bodden an ERC Advanced Grant onSelf-Optimizing Static Program Analysis.[9] In 2014, Eric Bodden received the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation.[10] The Technische Universität Darmstadt team placed second in the 2014 German IT Security Award from the Horst Görtz Foundation[11] and the first place in 2016.[12] In 2019, Bodden was named an ACM Distinguished Member.[13][14][15][16] Five of his publications have received the ACM Distinguished Paper Award.[17] Three of his previous doctoral students received the Ernst Denert Prize for Software Engineering.[18][19]