I am very honoured to be nominated as candidate for the Astropy Coordination Committee.
I have used Python and its scientific ecosystem for a major part of my research career in theoretical astrophysics as a free – open source – and versatile data analysis environment. For a number of years Astropy has become to me an example of a collaborative project striving to bundle the creative forces of an entire discipline. As a contributor and co-maintainer of the Astropy core package, I have been trying to combine my experiences as research scientist current activity as scientific software developer. In the latter I am also close to the end user experience of Astropy and its coordinated and affiliated packages, developing among others for the Glueviz visualisation packages and the STScI/JWST data analysis system.
I have also worked as editor for Affiliated package review both under our original system and in the partnership with pyOpenSci, and am a sitting member of CoCo since the 2022 election.
If reelected, my priorities would include ensuring a stable environment for a project growing both in size and complexity, and continuing to work towards a community more diverse in geographic, cultural and social backgrounds. I believe the project has set off on a good path by including more voting members from all around the globe, and organising the last couple of Coordination meetings and other workshops on both sides of the Atlantic, but obviously this still leaves large parts of the planet underrepresented. I would also strive to serve as a link between outgoing, long-term CoCo members (now and in the next elections) and incoming first-time members.