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Eric Bodden

Eric Bodden is a German computer scientist. 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.

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Eric Bodden
Bodden in 2024
Born1980 (age 45–46)
Aachen, Germany
OccupationComputer 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 University1 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

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.46

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.46

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.46

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 on Self-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 Foundation11 and the first place in 2016.12 In 2019, Bodden was named an ACM Distinguished Member.13141516 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.1819

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References

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  2. "Direktorium - Fraunhofer IEM". Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  3. "Directorate". Archived from the original on 17 January 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
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  5. Winners of the ACM Student Research Competition
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  7. "Eric Bodden". acatech - National Academy of Science and Engineering. Archived from the original on 16 March 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  8. "bitkom.org". Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  9. https://go.upb.de/ERC.Bodden-Eng
  10. "Eric Bodden ist Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preisträger 2014" (in German). 17 February 2014. Archived from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  11. "Sicherheits-Check in Minuten statt Jahren" (in German). 24 October 2014. Archived from the original on 30 September 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  12. "Preisträger 6. Deutscher IT-Sicherheitspreis 2016". Horst-goertz.de (in German). Horst Görtz Stiftung. Archived from the original on 17 July 2020.
  13. C.P. (17 November 2019). "Eric Bodden: Herausragende Forschung in der Informatik – markt & wirtschaft westfalen" (in German). PBL Media Verlag. Archived from the original on 26 August 2020.
  14. "Eric Bodden – Profile". dl.acm.org. Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 8 September 2023.
  15. "Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden erhält Auszeichnung für "herausragende Forschung in der Informatik" - Fraunhofer IEM" (in German).
  16. "Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden erhält Auszeichnung für »herausragende Forschung in der Informatik« - Fraunhofer IEM" (in German). Archived from the original on 5 December 2023. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  17. "Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden: Publications". Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  18. "Dissertation Award für Attract-Forscher - Fraunhofer IEM" (in German). Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  19. "Software-Engineering-Preis für ehemaligen Wissenschaftler der Universität Paderborn und des Fraunhofer IEM - Fraunhofer IEM" (in German). Archived from the original on 7 March 2021. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
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