Professor Michael Kolling
Professor of Computer Science, King's College London
Michael Kölling is a Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Computing Education Research Centre (CERC) at King’s College London, UK. Michael’s research interests are in the areas of programming languages, software tools, computing education and HCI. He has published numerous papers on object-orientation and computing education topics and is the author and co-author of two Java programming textbooks.
Michael is the lead developer of several educational programming environments, including BlueJ, Greenfoot and Strype. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Distinguished Member of the ACM, a UK National Teaching Fellow, a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Academic Board of the UK National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE). In 2013, he received the ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education.