Student Affairs and the Student Advisory Service

Awards and Recognitions

• 2022 ACM Distinguished Member "for Outstanding Educational Contributions to Computing" (opens in new tab)
• 2014 TU Darmstadt "Best Support" for "Introduction to Computer Science I" (in German; since 2015 "Functional and object-oriented Programming Concepts"), Computer Science Department
• 2012 TU Darmstadt "E-Teaching Award"
• 2011 ACM Senior Member
• 2010 TU Darmstadt "Athene-Preis für Gute Lehre" (Computer Science Department)
• 2010 "Best Lecture" for "Introduction to Computer Science I" (in German; since 2015 "Functional and object-oriented Programming Concepts"), Computer Science Department
• 2009 TU Darmstadt E-Teaching Award "Best Concept" and "Student-proof" - the latter was split with a professor from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
• 2009 Finalist for the "Hessischen Hochschulpreis für Exzellenz in der Lehre" (University Price for Excellence in Teaching of the State of Hesse)

Scientific Community Service

• Since 2023: Member of the ACM SIGCSE Awards Committee: Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education and Distinguished Service to the Computer Science Education Community
• 7/2020-7/2026 Member of the ACM ITiCSE Steering Committee
• 2021, 2023 ACM ITiCSE Steering Committee Liaison for the conferences ACM ITiCSE 2021 (virtual) and ITiCSE 2023 (Turku, Finland)
• 2020 Virtual Conference Management Co-Chair for the conference ACM ITiCSE 2020 moved into virtual space at short notice in March 2020 due to the Covid Pandemic)
• 2018-2020 Working Group Co-Chair at the conferences ACM ITiCSE 2018 (Larnaca, Cyprus), ITiCSE 2019 (Aberdeen, Scotland and ITiCSE 2020 (virtual)
• 2017 Program Co-Chair, ACM ITiCSE 2017 (Bologna, Italy)
• 2011 Conference Chair, ACM ITiCSE 2011 (Darmstadt, Germany)
• 2010 Future Liaison Chair, ACM ITiCSE 2010 (Ankara, Turkey)
• 2009 Working Group Co-Chair, ACM ITiCSE 2009 (Paris, France)
• 2006 Panels Coordinator, ACM ITiCSE 2005 (Lisbon, Portugal)
• 2006 Co-Chair, DeLFI 2006 (Darmstadt, Germany)
• 2005-2006 International Liaison, ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium
• 2002-2001 Programm Committee (2004), Co-Chair or Chair since 2004) of the Program Visualisation Workshop (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011)