Activities

• Member, ReSA Task Force "Actionable FAIR4RS" (since 2024)
• Chair, ReSA Task Force "Software Authorship & Contribution" (since 2023)
• Co-founder & member, Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Informatics Society) & de-RSE - Society for Research Software SIG "Research Software Engineering" (since 2023)
• The Carpentries Certified Instructor (since 2019) -
  teaching researchers basics of research software engineering

Past activities

• Co-founder & board member, de-RSE - Society for Research Software (2018-2021)
• Member, FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group
• Co-founder & delegate for Germany, International Council of RSE Associations (2020-2021)
• Co-convener, Research Software Engineering Working Group, German Association for Digital Humanities

Editing

• Computing in Science & Engineering (CiSE), Special Issue "Research Software Engineering: Discovering and Bridging Knowledge Gaps," S. Druskat, L. Grunske, C. Jay, and D. S. Katz, Eds., vol. 27(2), IEEE, April-June 2025.

Supervision

• Kevin Jahrens, M.Sc. Applied Computer Science (January 2025),
  Wismar University of Applied Sciences:
  "Identifikation und Vergleich von Autorenangaben zu Software zwischen verschiedenen Datenquellen."
  [Identification and comparison of author information for software between different data sources.]
  (co-supervised with Frank Krüger)

Peer review

Journals, funders, conferences (alphabetical order)

• Electronic Communications of the EASST
• German Research Foundation (DFG)
• International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE)
• Journal of Open Research Software
• PLOS Computational Biology
• Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)

Community service

Chairing

• Program Chair, "deRSE27 - 6th Conference for Research Software Engineers in Germany", Dortmund, Germany, 23-25 February 2027. (Website)
• Organizer, Program Committee Co-Chair, Proceedings Chair, Workshop "Software Engineering & Research Software (SERS 2026)", 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), Rio de Janeiro, 14 April 2026. (Website, Proceedings)
• Organizer, Dagstuhl Seminar 24161 "Research Software Engineering: Bridging Knowledge Gaps", Schloss Dagstuhl, 14-19 April 2024. (Website, Report)
• Program Chair, "deRSE19 - Conference for Research Software Engineers in Germany", Potsdam, Germany, 04-06 June 2019. (Website)
• General Chair, "2nd International RSE Leaders Workshop 2020", online, 15-16+30 September 2020. (Website)
• Organizing Co-Chair, "Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE6.1)", IEEE eScience 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 October 2018. (Website)
• Co-Chair, Workshop "Research Software Engineering und Digital Humanities. Reflexion, Kartierung, Organisation." Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum Konferenz 2018, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 27 February 2018. (Website, Abstract in Conference book of abstracts)
• General Chair, "Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE5.1)", University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 6 September 2017. (Website, Proceedings)

Committees

• Program Committee, "19th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology", Genoa, 9-11 September 2026. (Website)
• Steering Committee, "Software Sustainability Institute Collaborations Workshop", online, 04-07 April 2022. (Website)
• Program committee, "Nordic-RSE conference", 2021. (Website)
• Steering Committee & Program Committee, "SORSE - Series of Online Research Software Events", online, 2020. (Website)

Membership

• de-RSE - Society for Research Software, member since 2018
• Society for Research Software Engineering, member since 2020
• Gesellschaft für Informatik, member since 2019