The Research Software Engineer (RSE) movement started in the UK in 2012 with the Society of RSE. Their goal is to make known the work of Research Software Engineers in Universities and industry. In 2024 EPFL and ETHZ started an effort to organize the RSE community in Switzerland.

Scroll down for a definition of an RSE and how to participate.

Upcoming meetings

  • 2024-10-31 - RSE Lunch

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What is an RSE?

Quoting UK-RSE:
Regardless of your formal job title, if you answer yes to many of the following questions, you are doing the work of a Research Software Engineer:
  • Are you employed to develop software for research?
  • Are you spending more time developing software than conducting research?
  • Are you employed as a postdoctoral researcher, even though you predominantly work on software development?
  • Are you the person who does computers in your research group?
  • Are you sometimes not named on research papers despite playing a fundamental part in developing the software used to create them?
  • Do you lack the metrics needed to progress your academic career, like papers and conference presentations, despite having made a significant contribution through software?

Participating

A team comprised of C4DT, ENAC-IT4R, and SCITAS started discussing how to set up a kickoff meeting. You can find more information on our first blogpost.

To participate, you currently have two options:

Looking forward to seeing you!

Further Information

Recent Posts

October Lightning Talks

It was a pleasure meeting you all for the lightning talks! Thanks for the presentators and the public for the questions. We had the following talks: Carine Dengler: Local LLMs for fun, profit and nonesense Nicolas Richart: Spack - a package manager for HPC that can be use on any machine Uwe Schmitt (ETHZ): pytest-regtest - a pytest plugin for snapshot testing In addition, we also discussed new projects for the RSEs at EPFL and beyond.
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RSE Lightning Talks on July 10th, 2024

Illuminating Presentations were done Our lineup of lightning talks is sure to spark your curiosity: Valérian Rousset: WebAssembly introduction: Discover the power of WebAssembly, use cases, language support Presentation Bryan Perdrizat: Do you really know git? Presentation Reto Trappitsch: Packaging Python CLIs and GUIs for air-gapped machines Presentation Thanks for the three presenters, and all the people participating in the discussions on these topics. Our next RSE lightning talks will probably be in September.
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Zenodo

From GitHub to Zenodo: pros, cons and integration of the two platforms As researcher engineers, you understand the importance of efficient version control and collaborative development. GitHub has long been the go-to platform for managing and tracking code changes, but it lacks a built-in mechanism for long-term preservation or citation of code as a research output. This is where Zenodo becomes essential: by assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to uploads, Zenodo easily transforms repositories on GitHub into persistent, citable resources, thereby enhancing the visibility and academic impact of your work.
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First RSE lunch

EPFL RSE Kickoff Meeting

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Kickoff Preparation

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