Research Software Engineering (RSE) Movement at PSI

The online information event on the “Research Software Engineering (RSE) Movement” which took place at the Paul Scherrer Insitut on the 7th of May 2025 was a quite success and we got an unexpected high number of 100+ participants!

The event was organized by the HPCE group and we had the pleasure to welcome two keynote speakers from ETHZ, Uwe Schmitt and Tarun Chadha. Both of them are working at ETHZ Science IT, helped to built up a research software engineer community at ETHZ and are precursor in spreading the RSE movement in Switzerland- and are supporting us to build an RSE community at PSI.

Uwe focussed on what the concept of RSE is and why this such positions are important for PSI, while Tarun presented their strategy to spread the movement inside the ETH domain and future strategies.

The event was ended by questions from the attendees. The next step is to organize an in-person event at PSI (most probably in June) and a meeting with group heads.

Link to the slides.

Don’t forget to subscribe to the mailing list rse@lists.psi.ch by sending an e-mail to sympa@lists.psi.ch with the subject “subscribe rse@lists.psi.ch first_name last_name” if you are interested for more RSE events at PSI!