Dr. Nong Artrith, assistant professor at the Materials Chemistry and Catalysis group of the Debye Institute, received the first Sebastian Haben award. The other winner was PhD candidate in Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Douwe Schulte. Nong’s nomination stood out because her career encompasses a combination of open software, open data and open education. She developed Atomic Energy Network (ænet), an open-source software for the use of machine learning models in materials science. This software is also used by the PhD candidates in the MCC group for their research into novel energy materials. She publishes her datasets alongside the manuscripts on Materials Cloud. Finally, she is committed to open education and has posted several lectures and tutorials online with the relevant materials. The jury was impressed by her inspiring efforts in both open science and education.