Claire Wyatt

Claire is the Community Manager for Research Software Engineering at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and part of the team developing JuRSE (Jülich Research Software Engineering). JuRSE is a community of practice for everyone doing research software engineering at FZJ and aims to improve good practice in research software development. It delivers multiple community initiatives and support for scientific code. Claire also works with the Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering (HiRSE) to deliver an RSE themed seminar series online, open to all. She regularly volunteers her time on the organising committees of the annual RSE Conferences in Germany and the UK.

Before moving to Germany, Claire was the RSE Community Manager in the UK at the Software Sustainability Institute, based at the University of Southampton. In that time, she was part of the core team that grew the UK community to over 4000 people on Slack, over 600 members of the Society and an annual conference of 350 delegates with many high profile sponsors. Claire was a founding member of the UK's Association of Research Software Engineers and a founding Trustee of the Society of Research Software Engineering for 3 years and held the role of Vice-President for one year. She received the award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to the RSE Community’ in 2022.