Sandra Gesing is the inaugural Executive Director of the US Research Software Engineer Association, the Director of SGX3 - the Center of Excellence for Science Gateways and a Senior Researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Her research focuses on science gateways, computational workflows as well as distributed and parallel computing. She is especially interested in sustainability of research software, usability of computational methods and reproducibility of research results. Sustainability of research software has many facets and she advocates for improving career paths for research software engineers and for incentivizing their work via means beyond the traditional academic rewarding system. Before her positions at US-RSE and SDSC, she was a senior research scientist at the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), University of Illinois System, Chicago and she was an associate research professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, US. Before she moved to the US, she was a research associate at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Additionally, she has perennial experience as a project manager and system developer in industry in the US and Germany. As head of a system programmer group, she led long-term software projects. She received her Master’s degree in computer science from extramural studies at the FernUniversität Hagen, Germany, and her PhD in computer science from the University of Tübingen, Germany. More details can be found here http://sandra-gesing.com/