(I’m really proud about having received ITU’s Excellence in Teaching award for 2018. I am first and foremost a teacher, and view education as my most meaningful task. (It’s also the only thing that I am really good at.) Having my work recognised is immensely satisfying.

ITU Vice Chancellor Mads Tofte presents the award. 23 September 2018.

Here is the laudation from Vice Chancellor Mads Tofte:

Award for excellence in teaching

Every year, ITU awards a few teachers its Award for Excellence in Teaching. We do so based on what students have said about teachers in their evaluations. It is very difficult to choose, because students say so many positive things about so many different teachers. But we have arrived at the following, one from each of our three departments:

Associate Professor Thore Husfeldt of the Department of Computer Science

During the past year, Thore has been teaching “Algorithm Design”, “Algorithms and Data Structures” and “Foundations of Computing – Algorithms and Data Structures”. Here are some of the things that students write about Thore:

• Absolute rock star
• Best lecturer on ITU, hands down
• Thore makes things, that seemed very complicated when reading the book, seem easy peasy when he explains them at the lectures.
• Jeg kan godt lide den del af undervisningen, hvor vi ved håndsoprækning skal stemme om, hvilket svar vi tror er rigtigt på et spørgsmål. Typisk gør det, at Thore godt fatter, hvad det er, han skal uddybe.
• The black board exercises in the lectures are a brilliant break in between the coding and explaining.
• Very engaged! Obviously very capable and passionate about teaching this subject
• It is the one class I don’t miss, even if it’s at 8am and that’s because of the quality of the teacher