Eric Bodden (born 20 February 1980 in Aachen) is a German computer scientist and Professor for Secure Software Engineering at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute of Paderborn University and is Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Design (IEM). He is also head of the engineering area in the Collaborative Research Centre 1119 CROSSING at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Life and Work

Eric Bodden studied computer science at RWTH Aachen University, including a year abroad at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He graduated with distinction from RWTH in 2005. He won the Grand Finals of the ACM Student Research Competition with the topic of his thesis.^[1]

From 2006 to 2009, Bodden did his PhD at McGill University in the research group of Prof. Laurie Hendren on Verifying finite-state properties of large-scale programs.

From 2009 to 2015, Eric Bodden worked at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, first as a PostDoc in the research group of Prof. Mira Mezini, then as head of an Emmy Noether group of the DFG. At the time, Bodden was Principal Investigator at the LOEWE centre Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED) and research group leader at the European Center for Security and Privacy by Design (EC SPRIDE), the largest of currently three BMBF-funded competence centres on IT security.

Since the summer of 2013, Bodden has held a cooperative professorship at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) and the Technische Universität Darmstadt. At the same time, he received Fraunhofer funding as part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's Attract programme. The Fraunhofer Attract funding programme offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to advance their ideas towards application within a Fraunhofer Institute close to the market.

Since 2016, Bodden is heading the Secure Software Engineering group at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University and since then he is also director for Software Engineering and IT-Security at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Systems Design (IEM).

Research focus

In his research, Bodden deals with the topic of secure software engineering, in particular with the question of how software products can be effectively secured against external attacks before they are delivered. Highly precise and highly efficient techniques of automated static and dynamic code analysis are being used in order to achieve this.

Awards

In 2014, Eric Bodden received the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the German Research Foundation, the highest award for young German scientists.^[2] Furthermore, he received the second prize at the German IT Security Award of the Horst Görtz Foundation from Neu-Anspach together with his colleagues in 2014 ^[3] and the first prize in 2016, endowed with EUR 100,000.^[4] In 2019, Bodden was appointed ACM Distinguished Scientist.^[5] To date, five of his publications have received the ACM Distinguished Paper Award.^[6] Three of his previous PhD students received the Ernst Denert Prize in Software Engineering.^[7][8]

Memberships

Bodden is a member of the BITKOM Management Club,^[9] "Distinguished Member" ^[10] of the ACM^[11] and the Gesellschaft für Informatik.

References

External links

• Homepage Eric Bodden
• Secure Software Engineering group at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute
• Profile Eric Bodden at Fraunhofer-Institute for Mechatronic Design IEM