Eric Bodden

Eric Bodden is a German computer scientist, born in 1980 in Aachen, who works on secure software engineering and static program analysis. He studied computer science at RWTH Aachen University, with an exchange year at the University of Kent, and his diploma thesis won the undergraduate category of the ACM Student Research Competition in 2005. He earned his doctorate at McGill University between 2006 and 2009, then worked at the Technische Universität Darmstadt from 2009 to 2015 and held a cooperative professorship there with the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology from 2013. Since 2016 he has held the Chair of Secure Software Engineering at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of Paderborn University and directs software engineering and IT security at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design. He received the German Research Foundation's Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize in 2014, was named an ACM Distinguished Member in 2019 and won a European Research Council Advanced Grant in 2024.