Mihaela is a Senior Research Software Engineer with the Oxford RSE group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. She is particularly interested in translational projects with potential societal impact. Mihaela is also a Research Associate at the Oxford University Babylab in the Department of Experimental Psychology where her current research interests focus on computational modelling of language-mediated attention in babies and young children. From 2012 to 2017 Mihaela was the Research Software Officer of the Department of Experimental Psychology, providing specialised software support for the research activities in the department. Mihaela became interested in the RSE movement when attending the Collaborations Workshops CW15 and became a committee member for the UK RSE Association at the first RSE conference in 2016. Mihaela also helped organise the RSE Conference 2018 as one of the Workshop Chairs. She is a founding trustee of the Society of RSE, a member of the current board of trustees and the Membership Lead for the Society.