Felienne Hermans

Felienne Hermans
Hermans in 2018
Born	Felienne Frederieke Johanna Hermans 1984 (age 40–41) [1]
Alma mater	Eindhoven University of Technology (MSc) Delft University of Technology (PhD)
Known for	Spreadsheets
Scientific career
Fields	Programming education End-user computing [2]
Institutions	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Leiden University Delft University of Technology
Thesis	Analyzing and visualizing spreadsheets  (2013)
Website	www.felienne.com

Felienne Frederieke Johanna Hermans (born 1984) ^[1] 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 ^[2] 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 ^[update] 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, ^[41] to teach children to use the Python programming language. ^{[42] [43]}

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. ^{[44] [45] [46] [ 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. ^{[47] [48] [49] [50]}

In 2018, the Open Education Consortium awarded her the Open Education Award for Excellence. ^[51] Also in 2018, Hermans won the Tech Inspirator Award at the Techionista Awards. ^[52]

References

1. ISNI   0000000419580391
2. Felienne Hermans publications indexed by Google Scholar
3. Felienne Hermans at DBLP Bibliography Server
4. Felienne Hermans publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
5. Felienne's ORCID   0000-0003-0722-0156
6. Hermans, Felienne (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, Felienne 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. "Hedy: Textual programming for the classroom". Hedy. Retrieved 26 June 2025.
42. Hermans, Felienne (February 2021). "Learning text-based programming with Hedy". helloworld.raspberrypi.org.
43. "Felienne Hermans receives Dutch Prize for ICT Research 2021 | NWO". nwo.nl. 21 January 2021. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
44. TU Delft (2016-01-19). "Onderwijsprijs voor online cursus Felienne Hermans" (in Dutch). Emerce. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
45. "ONLINE CURSUS 'DATA ANALYSIS' IS BESTE ONDERWIJSINNOVATIEPROJECT IN EUROPA" (in Dutch). Nationale Onderwijsgids. 2016-01-20. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
46. "SURF onderwijsprijs voor Felienne Hermans". TU Delft. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
47. "Felienne Hermans wins SURF Education Award". TU Delft. 2017-11-21. Retrieved 2019-01-09.
48. "SURF onderwijsprijs voor Felienne Hermans". TU Delft. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
49. "Innovatieve TU-docente wint SURF Onderwijsaward". AD. 10 November 2017. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
50. "SURF Onderwijsawards 2017 - Felienne Hermans". Coöperatie SURF. 2017-11-06. Retrieved 2019-04-27.
51. "Felienne Hermans won the Open Education Award for Excellence". TU Delft. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
52. "Felienne Hermans | Techionista Awards" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2019-03-20.