Matt Fisher

Bio 

Matt Fisher is a Research Software Engineer at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment at UC Berkeley (DSE). Matt is passionate about open science and open source software, inclusive and welcoming communities, Earth’s climate, tinkering, and music.

Prior to joining DSE, Matt was a Research Software Engineer at National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) where he worked on software projects like QGreenland and earthaccess. In 2023, Matt gained a new passion for teaching through experiences with workshop design and administration and his role as a NASA Mentor in the Openscapes program. Matt is following his passion and is now a certified Carpentries Instructor.

In his free time, Matt loves playing with dogs, playing the keyboard and drums, organic gardening, soldering stuff, and “testing” 😋 his partner’s kitchen experiments.