Torstein J. F. Strømme

Torstein J. F. Strømme is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway. His academic work is centered within the Didactics research group, focusing on computer science education and pedagogical methods.

• Position: Associate Professor
• Department: Department of Informatics
• University: University of Bergen
• Email: torstein.stromme@uib.no
• Office: HIB - Thormøhlens gate 55, Room 3101 / Høyteknologisenteret, Office 404P2
• Location: Bergen, Norway

He earned his PhD (2015–2020) and MSc (2013–2015) in Computer Science from the University of Bergen, and a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (2009–2013). Prior to his current role, he worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Vizrt (2020–2021) and as an Assistant Professor at UiB (2018–2019).

His research is dedicated to computer science education and algorithmic thinking, with a strong emphasis on teaching practices, student motivation, and curriculum development. He is deeply involved in informatics didactics, exploring how programming is taught and learned, particularly at the introductory level. His interests extend to making theoretical computer science accessible to K-12 students and integrating computing into interdisciplinary domains like medicine and law.

Although no specific publications are listed in the provided text, his teaching portfolio and thesis topics suggest a focus on algorithms, computational efficiency, and educational software tools. He has contributed to educational resources such as a simple Python graphics library for beginners and is active in competitive programming communities (NIO, NCPC).

He is open to supervising master's theses on topics related to CS education, algorithmic thinking, and interdisciplinary applications of computing.

Torstein also offers minor consulting services, leveraging his expertise as an expert witness in source code plagiarism cases and in data science application development.