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Professor Susanne Bødker Aarhus University, Department of Computer Science Thanks, this is a real honour.

Susanne was born in 1956 in Randers, Denmark. She comes from a non-academic family and started university at a time where generally girls were not considered much fit for that. Aspiring to be a math teacher, she started there, soon to find out that the upcoming field of Computer Science was more interesting. It was, however, first when spending time at Xerox PARC in 1982 that she found female role models and this made her believe in an academic career. Academically she has generally managed, despite making many ‘wrong choices’ in her career, at least when seen with today’s standards: She has spend most of her life in the same university, she became a single parent, and she prioritises an active life with other people and has lived in the same co-housing arrangement for over 30 years. She is now a happy grandmother and considering how retirement can be combined with the best of academic life.

Susanne's impressive academic CV includes:

• MSc in Mathematics and Computer Science, Aarhus University. 1982.
• Visiting scientist at Xerox Palo Alto Research Lab., and Univ. of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 1982-83; PhD student, assistant and associate professor Aarhus University 1983-2001; PhD1987, Dr. Scient 1999. Full professor Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University 2001.
• Visiting researcher, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Univ. of Limerick, Irland 1996; Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm 2009.
• Reviews for the Swedish National Research Council of Technical Sciences, for British Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Academy of Finland, and many more.
• Member of the Danish research council for the Technical Sciences1997-2003, ESF Standing Committee for Physical and Engineering Sciences (PESC) 2011-12; the Board of Trustees of Aarhus University 2012-2020; Council of Technology and Innovation 2012-14.

Peer-reviewed publications: 180+

Citations: 10000+

H-Index: 47, according to Google Scholar, March 2020.

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