We are pleased to announce the 2025 class of Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellows: five Fellows and five Honorable Mentions.
We sincerely thank all fellowship applicants. The broad range of creative and interesting proposals made the selection process difficult.
The BSSw Fellowship Program gives recognition and funding to leaders and advocates of high-quality scientific software. Each 2025 Fellow will receive up to $25,000 for an activity that promotes better scientific software, such as organizing a workshop, preparing a tutorial, or creating content to engage the scientific software community.
The BSSw Fellowship Program is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE, via the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and the National Nuclear Security Administration's Advanced Simulation and Computing Program) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The BSSw Fellowship Program enables a more robust approach toward pioneering the future of advanced computing ecosystems and leadership in science and engineering. The program enhances workforce development and pathways to NSF and DOE software communities, through nurturing a network of people who advance software practices as a fundamental aspect of increasing overall scientific productivity.
2025 BSSw Fellows
Alper Altuntas, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Software Engineer, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory
BSSw focus: Rigor and reasoning in research software: Tutorial on testing and verification methods
Jasmine Buckley-Williams, San Diego State University
Graduate Student, Big Data Analytics
BSSw focus: Resource toolkit and outreach on scalable, reproducible software practices
Brigitta Sipőcz, California Institute Of Technology
Developer, IPAC
BSSw focus: User-facing tutorials as code: Reproducible and reliable tutorials with CI/CD
Peter K. G. Williams, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Technical Lead, Minor Planet Center
BSSw focus: Framework for architecting technical documentation
Junchao Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory
Principal Software Engineer, Mathematics and Computer Science Division
BSSw focus: MPI debugging resources and community hub
2025 BSSw Honorable Mentions
Emmanuel Atoleya Atindama, University of Toledo
Visiting Assistant Professor, Data Science and Mathematics
Sierra Brown, Two Worlds Scientific, LLC
CEO and Research Software Engineer
Alejandra Castillo, Pomona College
Instructor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Zeinab Serhan, Arizona State University
Senior Software Engineer, Learning Engineering Institute
Minhaz Zibran, Idaho State University
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
About the BSSw Fellowship
The main goal of the BSSw Fellowship Program is to foster and promote practices, processes, and tools to improve developer productivity and software sustainability of scientific codes. BSSw Fellows are selected annually based on an application process that includes the proposal of an activity that promotes better scientific software. Subscribe to the BSSw email digest for notification about next year’s call for applications, which will be announced in summer 2025. More information:
Stay tuned for more from the 2025 BSSw Fellows.
Contribute to the BSSw Site
Also, we want and need contributions from the international community for the BSSw site. If you have expertise that can help other scientific software teams, we encourage you to contribute an article or pointer to good work. See details on how to contribute to BSSw.
Author bio
Elsa Gonsiorowski is Coordinator of the BSSw Fellowship Program, a member of the PESO Project team, and HPC I/O support specialist at Livermore Computing, LLNL.
