Alice Allen is an American information technology specialist and astronomer, the editor of the Astrophysics Source Code Library[1] and a faculty specialist in the Astronomy Department of the University of Maryland, College Park.
[4] She worked in information technology as a consultant, in private industry, and for 22 years in the Division of Information Technology of the Federal Reserve Board, before retiring in 2017.
[3] She became editor of the Astrophysics Source Code Library in 2010,[3] on a volunteer basis, after previously volunteering for the Astronomy Picture of the Day web site.
[1] Her work on making available the codes for processing astronomical data has been cited as an important component in the reproducibility of scientific research.
[5] In 2023 the American Astronomical Society (AAS) named Allen as a Fellow of the AAS, "for her great insight, deep knowledge, leading advocacy, and inspiring achievements involving open-source astronomy software; for making astronomy more efficient by creating avenues to release and cite research software; and for building, editing, and promoting the Astrophysics Source Code Library".