Alice Allen's Astronomy Department Home Page


jupiter Name:Alice Allen
Title:Faculty Specialist
Room:ATL 0231
Phone:(301) 405-8360
E-mail:ascl@umd.edu

Alice Allen's work focuses on astrophysics research software and the entire ecosytem around research software. She is the Editor of the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL), and has organized sessions on software at AAS, EAS, and ADASS meetings.

She participates in cross-disciplinary efforts such as CodeMeta, CITATION.cff, and Research Data Alliance to improve software citation, research transparency, and recognition for those who enable science with their computational contributions. She was a member of the FORCE11 Software Citation and Software Citation Implementation Working Groups, founded the SciCodes consortium, and is one of the organizers of the Virtual Astronomy Software Talks (VAST) seminar series.

She is a member of the European Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union, and is a member and Fellow of the American Astronomical Society. She is also on the Astronomy Picture of the Day Evaluation and Advisory Committee.



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