Welcome

This is the first post of CH-RSE. 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?

Currently there is one official RSE group in Switzerland:

• Research Software Engineering Community @ ETH Zurich

A second one is about to be started at EPFL