The community of research software engineers in the Nordics

There are several ways of being a member of the Nordic RSE community. None of these numbers count everyone, but here are some details (as of Winter 2025)

  • Our Zulip stream has about 450 members
  • Around 100 have signed up to our mailing list or become members

RSE groups in Nordic countries

Research software engineering groups provide a home for research programmers who collaborate with researchers on multiple research projects. Typically, a group of RSEs contract out their work to different people who need it, but we are also interested in groups with significant internal RSE work.

To create a Nordic network of RSEs, we are interested in listing RSE groups, teams, and local communities. They may be based in (for example) universities, national labs, research institutes, academic departments, or university IT organisations.

If you are organized in such a group please contact us. We are aware of these Nordic RSE groups:

Community map of research software engineers in the Nordics

How to get added

You can add yourself or your group to this map by sending a pull request changing the data file.

Who can be included? We don't strictly define it right now, but welcome anyone who feels a connection to the research software engineering spirit. You don't have to have an "RSE" job title, or even be recognized for your software expertise, but you should feel it relates to your current or future career somehow.

Please read our map documentation about the required and optional data fields.

Privacy

This map is a publication, and we are supporting your explicit choice to express your professional information to the world. By submitting to this map, you are choosing that your data is made public without special privacy protection. However the data itself is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license. We publish your information on your behalf until you request it be removed from the current version, but we won't alter the Git history. We may contact you to keep things up to date or let you know of events.