6th Conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany with more than 280 attendees
The 6th Conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany, deRSE26,has successfully concluded at the University of Stuttgart. The three-day conference brought together more than 280 participants from universities and research institutions across Germany and beyond. The program featured around 90 posters and 100 talks, workshops, and interactive sessions in up to five parallel tracks. Contributions covered topics such as research software craftsmanship, emerging computing & infrastructure, Open Science & collaboration, data analysis & AI, community, policy & career development, as well as cross-disciplinary advancements.
Speakers and attendees represented a broad spectrum of domains, including engineering, natural and life sciences, humanities, and social sciences. The conference emphasized openness, community building, and collaboration across disciplines, institutions, genders, and career stages.
Highlights of the conference program included two plenary talks: Wolfgang Bangerth from Colorado State University addressed the challenges of building reliable, scalable simulation software in complex application domains. Morane Gruenpeter’s plenary focused on the sustainability and governance of research software in the broader open science ecosystem.
As a very special highlight, Kai Riedmiller from the SSC team won the young RSE award with his talk “KIMMDY: Simulating Reactions in Molecular Dynamics”. Congratulations, Kai!
Two SSC Fellows also participated in the conference: Luca Monari presented a talk on “pyFuRNAce: An integrated design engine for RNA origami”. Anamaria Elek presented a poster about “Bridging Computational Biology and Software Engineering: A Deep Learning Framework for Alternative Splicing Analysis”. The SSC's RSE contributions ranged from posters to presentations and can be found on zenodo as well as linked below.
