Felienne Hermans is a professor of Computer Science Education at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She also works as a high-school CS teacher one day a week at Open Schoolgemeenschap Bijlmer.

Felienne is the creator of the Hedy programming language, a gradual and multi-lingual programming language designed for teaching and author of the book “The Programmer’s Brain” a book that helps programmers understand how their brain works and how to use it more effectively. In 2021, Felienne was awarded the Dutch Prize for ICT research.

She writes for Dutch newspaper Volkskrant every month and writes a weekly newsletter on computer science, AI and many other things (at www.felienne.nl)