Catherine Jones leads the UKERC Energy Data Centre at STFC. She is has a computing degree, is a member of the British Computer Society and a chartered Librarian. She has a wide experience in providing information systems and services to the academic community, both within and external to STFC using her software engineering and information management expertise to deliver effective services to user communities. Her personal research interests are the digital curation of software & data, persistent identification of software; linking research outputs (data, publications and software) and career paths for Research Software Engineers. She is a member of the Software Sustainability Institute’s Advisory Board.