Welcome to RSE Stories, a collection of interviews and shared experiences from community members. These are intended to celebrate the diversity of people and roles within research software engineering, and to provide inspiration both to those starting their journey, and those developing along their current path.
We interview RSEs at various career levels and ask them how they’ve come to be in research software engineering. Read their inspiring interviews at the links below.
We’d love to hear about your RSE Story. If you are happy to share it with us you can submit it using this form. We’re also happy to chat to you in person or remotely, and later transcribe and edit your contribution. Please email [email protected]. However you share your story, you’ll have the chance to review it before it’s published and we can publish your story with or without your name attached to it.
If you have previously shared a journey and wish it to be unpublished, please get in touch via email at [email protected].
In 2021, we ran a workshop on “The RSE Landscape – What is your RSE type and how do you want to develop it?”. Read the summary blog post here.
2025 Stories
Darold Davis
Team Principal
Replicant AD
2024 Stories
Jeremy Cohen
Research Fellow and Director of Research Software Engineering Strategy
Imperial College London
Robert Chisholm
Research Software Engineer
University of Sheffield
Sandra Gesing
Executive Director
US Research Software Engineers Association
Martin Stoffel
Research Data Scientist
Alan Turing Institute
2023 Stories
Dan Katz
Chief Scientist
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Louise Brown
Assistant Professor in Engineering
Nottingham University
Arianna Ciula
Director and Senior Research Software Analyst
King’s Digital Lab, King’s College London
Prasad Dilip Sutar
Research Software Engineer
University
of Bristol
Cristian Dinu
Senior Research Software Engineer
University College London
Jamie Quinn
Senior Research Software Engineer
University College London
Samantha Finnigan
Senior Research Software Engineer
Durham University
Matt Williams
Research Software Engineer and RSE Society President
University of Bristol
2022 Stories
Emma Hogan
Senior Scientific Software Engineer
Met Office
Alison Clarke
Research Software Engineer
Durham University
2021 Stories
Al Tanner
RSE
University of Bristol
Sarah Gibson
Open Source Infrastructure Engineer
2i2c
Vanessa Sochat
Computer Scientist
Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Andy Janco
Digital Scholarship Librarian
Haverford College
2019 Stories
James Graham
RSE
Software Sustainability Institute
Louise Lever
RSE
University of Manchester
Sue Thorne
Senior RSE
STFC