Career-focused DevExchange in WSL
August 28, 2025
Inspired by a similar event at EAWAG, we held an internal Career-focused DevExchange event at WSL. We had 4 research software engineers among ourselves highlighting their career paths so far and their expectations and experiences with software engineering at WSL. We also discussed the possibilities that they see for an improvement in software engineering at WSL.
Our Event Story
- Welcome and Agenda: Ionut Iosifescu Enescu
- Presentations
- Enikö Fey
- Ranita Pal
- Dominik Haas
- Christoph Tellenbach
- Discussions
How our event ran
We had some very interesting presentations from colleagues who have backgrounds in industry and academia. Each of the speakers presented a bit of their life’s journey prior to becoming a Research software engineer and how their path led them to their careers today. The driving factors for their careers turned out to be pretty diverse - forests, data management, design and coding.
More ...EnhanceR Symposium 2025: Registration is open
July 2, 2025
📢 On behalf of the EnhanceR and Research Software Engineering (hashtag#RSE) communities in 🇨🇭Switzerland, we would like to invite you to the upcoming EnhanceR Symposium.
🌐 The symposium will take place on 4 September 2025 at HEG-FR in Fribourg, Switzerland, and will focus on Swiss hashtag#RSE in Action. For more information and registration, please visit https://symposium.enhancer.ch/.
📝 During the registration process you will also have the opportunity to submit a contribution for a show-and-tell session or a workshop.
More ...EnhanceR Symposium 2025: Call for contributions
April 29, 2025
We are looking for contributions for the EnhanceR symposium 2025 which will take place on 4 September 2025 in Fribourg.
More ...Results of the RSE logo community vote
April 10, 2025
We closed the poll on 8 April and are pleased to announce the winner:
We got a grand total of 104 submissions, and we’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who took part. This was much more than we expected!
More ...First RSE community event at WSL Birmensdorf
March 26, 2025
With financial support from the Open Research Data (ORD) Program of the ETH Domain , we have also started to establish an RSE community at WSL, and link it with the communities already available at other institutions such as ETHZ, EPFL or EMPA.
On February 3rd, 2025, more than 40 people attended the first RSE@WSL in-person meetup at WSL Birmensdorf. The event started with several guest presentations from Empa and ETH Zurich.
More ...Community Voting: Logo Ideas
March 25, 2025
We are working on a Swiss wide RSE community website. We have a couple of logo ideas and we would like your input to decide which idea we should develop further.
You can find the ideas in our survey.
Please submit your preferences by Tuesday, April 8.