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Gerald Futschek

Professor Gerald Futschek heads the Institute of Information Systems Engineering at TU Wien, where he leads a group specialising in computer science education. His research interests lie in the didactics of computer science, with a focus on computational thinking and the teaching of programming. He is committed to promoting young talent in IT, in particular through his active involvement in competitions such as Biber der Informatik, the Computer Creative Competition and the Informatics Olympiad.

Elisabeth Wetzinger

Elisabeth Wetzinger is a university assistant at the Institute of Information Systems Engineering at TU Wien. Her research focuses on and interests lie in the areas of computer science pedagogy, gender and diversity in STEM, and innovative concepts and methods in higher education, with a particular focus on MOOCs (massive open online courses). From 2011 to 2016, she worked as a project assistant at the Computer Vision Lab at TU Wien and at CogVis GmbH in the areas of research, teaching, project acquisition and project management, marketing and sales. As part of these roles, she worked on facial recognition under uncontrolled conditions, impact assessment regarding (personal) images on social media with a focus on young people, and the development and implementation of measures to raise awareness of these issues within society. She completed her Master’s degrees in Computer Science Management (Mag.rer.soc.oec, 2010) and Media Informatics (Dipl. Ing., 2016) with distinction at TU Wien.

Xi Wang

Xi Wang is a Master’s student in Visual Computing at TU Wien and has been working since 2015 as a tutor and teaching assistant at the Institute of Information Systems Engineering, teaching the ‘Introduction to Programming’ module and the pre-university bridging course in programming for women. Her interests and the main focus of her current work include topics such as “Women in Computer Science”, “Barriers to programming for first-year students” and innovative concepts and methods in higher education, particularly MOOCs (massive open online courses).

Lukas Kränkl

Lukas Kränkl completed a Bachelor’s degree in Business Informatics at TU Wien between 2011 and 2014. During his Master’s degree in ‘Software Engineering and Internet Computing’, he specialised in e-learning and information security. As part of his Master’s thesis, ‘Evaluation of e-learning techniques for delivering a MOOC’, he helped develop the course ‘Programming with Processing’. In 2015, he co-founded the design and graphics agency “Gebrüder Pixel” with a partner, where he now works full-time.