Felienne Hermans
Dutch engineer and academic
Felienne Frederieke Johanna Hermans (born 1984) is a scientist and Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research interests include programming education and end-user computing particularly spreadsheets.
Education
Hermans received her Master of Science degree in computer science from Eindhoven University of Technology, and her PhD in software engineering in 2013 from Delft University of Technology.
Career and research
After her PhD, she was appointed an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, heading the Spreadsheet Lab.
As of 2024 Hermans is head of the Programming Education Research Lab (PERL).
Hermans is the founder and former CEO of Infotron, a research spin-off company of TU Delft that implements risk assessment software for spreadsheets.
Hermans is active with DigiLeerkracht, the computational thinking teaching by Future.nl, and teaches programming, including one day a week at the Lyceum Kralingen in Rotterdam.
In addition, Hermans is a referee at the FIRST Lego League Challenge, where children build a robot from Lego.
She served as a board member at Devnology Nederland, an organisation for software developers. She is a co-organiser of the yearly conference Joy of Coding.
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