Kerstin Kleese van Dam (2018 Woman of the Year Award in Science winner Brookhaven Town, 2006 British Female Innovators and Inventors Silver Award) is the Director of the Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the USA, leading BNL’s computer science and mathematics R&D portfolio reaching from leading edge research to operational infrastructure provision. CSI research focuses on data analytics @ scale – novel hardware to new AI methods for science, exascale computational modeling and quantum information science – quantum networking to optimized quantum algorithms for high energy, nuclear and condensed matter physics. We have a new, state of the art data center opened in 2021, that provides leading edge data storage and analysis capabilities.