Swiss RSE Survey
September 8, 2025
Are you based in Switzerland and involved in developing software to advance research? For example, are you a PhD student, researcher or professional software developer? Or do you plan to become an RSE? Do you manage a group of Research Software Engineers? If so, please help us by filling out the survey.
The RSE4ORD project created this survey to gain a better understanding of the current RSE landscape in Switzerland and its needs.
More ...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 ...RSEs as active contributors to build scientific communities around ORD
June 3, 2025
The meeting on “RSE, ORD, and DMP” was a big success! We discussed how RSEs can participate in Open Research Data, and what Data Management Plans can do for the engineers and the projects. For a lot of the RSEs present, DMP was a new acronym. But thanks to Gilles Dubochet from EPFL’s Open Science, and Chiara Gabella from the EPFL library, we got a better idea what DMPs are, and where they can help us.
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!
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