Dear all,

after the successful kick-off Meeting with more than 100 attendees we plan the next step in building a Research Software Engineer (RSE) community at PSI.

We are glad to announce an onsite event on Tuesday, 15 July 2025 from 15:00 to 16:30 followed by an apéro. If you are interested in this onsite event, please register via https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/y2jqzj2DUglGzs8s till 1 July so that we know how many participants we can expect. The location will be announced beginning of July.

RSE communities are a means for exchange as well as a voice for emphasising the importance of software developers in modern research and for lobbying for suitable career paths for people working or considering working in such roles in academia. For more information please visit: https://rse.swiss.

This might be of particular interest to you if: You work at PSI, and a significant part of your daily job is programming or software engineering. You work as a scientific software developer, data scientist, computing specialist or in another role focusing on programming for research. You are a PhD student or a postdoc who could envision becoming a software developer in an academic environment.

Elsa Germann, Achim Gsell, Michael Weinold