Message from the Executive Director October 2023
Posted on October 1, 2023
Dear US-RSE members and allies,
I’m honored and thrilled to be appointed the inaugural Executive Director of US-RSE. My whole work life has been
immersed around software with me starting already at high-school with programming. I enjoyed working in industry as
an administrator, system developer and head of a systems programming group for over a decade and then I switched
from industry to research completing my PhD in a bioinformatics group. I have been an RSE, research faculty and
senior research scientist with a major focus on research software in the last 17 years. This moment is very special to me
because it is about a community I’m incredibly passionate about, and this community feels like home. Being a part
of it means having a space for discussions, a space for learning and support of a non-traditional career path.
With my resume, I often felt like a unicorn – not within US-RSE though.