Tobias Kohn

Tobias Kohn is chair of the computing education group.  His research interests focus on computing education as well as programming languages and compilers.

After graduating in mathematics and obtaining his certificate for teaching, he taught for more than ten years at Swiss high schools.  During that time he developed the programming environment TigerJython and received his PhD in computer science from ETH Zürich.  He then moved to the UK, studying and teaching computer science at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Edinburgh, contributing to the introduction of pattern matching in Python.  After having held positions as assistant professor at the University of Utrecht and TU Vienna, he is now full professor at KIT since September 2023.

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