{"id":10089,"date":"2025-12-10T18:21:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/?p=10089"},"modified":"2026-10-30T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:22:19","slug":"software-sustainability-award-gmoller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/2025\/12\/10\/software-sustainability-award-gmoller\/","title":{"rendered":"Team led by Dr Gunnar M\u00f6ller wins Software Sustainability Institute Grant Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A project for curating software for high-performance numerical simulations of quantum materials led by PQM&#8217;s head of group <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/person\/gunnar-moller\/\">Dr Gunnar M\u00f6ller<\/a> was selected for funding in the first round of Research Software Maintenance Awards made by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.software.ac.uk\">Software Sustainability Institute<\/a> [now rebranded as Institute for Research Software], as one of only 13 projects nationwide which went to 10 different institutions (<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.software.ac.uk\/ssi-awards-funding-13-critical-projects-through-research-software-maintenance-fund-round-1\">see funder news report<\/a><a>). The awards were given out after a fierce competition, with more than 350 initial expressions of interest and nearly 150 full applications received. <\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Our project will bring together an international team of developers for two important physics software libraries: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nick-ux.org\/diagham\/index.php\/Main_Page#Using_DiagHam\">DiagHam<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/alps.comp-phys.org\">ALPS<\/a> (Algorithms and Libraries for Physics Simulations), both of which target the understanding of strongly correlated materials.<\/p>\n<p>The grant of \u00a3149,999.77 will support the improvement and future-proofing the underlying computer codes\u2019 overall robustness and create new possibilities to use the software from both projects jointly. This goal will be supported by a dedicated Research Software Engineer to join the team in the near future, and a group of project partners from across Europe and the US. A developer workshop will bring together the whole team and provide opportunities for future developers to join. Our project will also provide documentation, enhance user-friendliness and organise a community workshop to train future users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I acknowledge my wonderful collaborators for enabling this award: Dr Nicolas Regnault, Flatiron Institute \/ CNRS \/ Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure (who created DiagHam originally), Prof. Zlatko Papic, University of Leeds (Co-I), and the fantastic ALPS team: Prof Emmanuel Gull (Warszaw, University of Michigan), Prof. Vito Scarola (Virginia Tech), Adrian Feiguin (Northeastern University, Boston), and Hannah Terletska (Middle Tennessee State University).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A project for curating software for high-performance numerical simulations of quantum materials led by PQM&#8217;s head of group Dr Gunnar M\u00f6ller was selected for funding in the first round of Research Software Maintenance Awards made by the Software Sustainability Institute [now rebranded as Institute for Research Software], as one of only 13 projects nationwide which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":10092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[550,667,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-news","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10089"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11142,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10089\/revisions\/11142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/pqm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}