Daniel S. Katz is Chief Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Research Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and the School of Information Sciences, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is working to make research software more sustainable by encouraging scholarly incentives and academic career paths for those who work on it, policy changes for its recognition and support, and best practices to make it easier to develop and maintain. He is co-founder and Associate-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Open Source Software, co-founder and Steering Committee Chair for the Research Software Alliance (ReSA), and co-founder of the US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE).