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Together, we have many years of experience programming for science, mentoring, and teaching computing.

Gregor Decristoforo 
Head of Research Software Engineering, UiT

Teaching reproducible research software development to PhD students and researchers at UiT. Helping researchers with code developement, packaging and code publishing.

How I can help: 

  • Git, GitHub, code documentation, publishing research code
  • Python programming and packaging
  • Machine learning on HPC systems
  • Julia Programming Language
  • Numerical methods for partial differential equations

Andrew Mashchak 
Research Software Engineer, UiT

Assisting researchers with all digital aspects of the research process.

How I can help:

  • Statistical analysis and data visualization
  • Data cleaning and management
  • Workflow streamlining, reproducible research
  • Adapting code to high-performance computing clusters
  • R, Python, SAS

Binod Baniya
Research Software Engineer, UiT

Supports researchers with GPU programming, deep learning and producing web and mobile application from research software

How I can help:

  • GPU programming and optimization
  • Deep learning model training and deployment
  • Web and Mobile Application development

Jørn Dietze
Research Software Engineer, UiT

Enjoys to improve code and workflows together to make the computational part of research easier.
In addition helps researchers with scaling their codes and programms to high-performance computers.

How I Can Help:

  • Python programming and plotting
  • Automation of workflows using tools like snakemake and nextflow
  • Moving to GitHub/GitLab and implmenting good work practises

Etienne Gavazzi
Research Software Engineer, UiT

Enjoys helping researchers make their scientific code fast, reusable and readable. Particularly interested in numerical modelling, simulations and scientific visualization.

How I can help:

  • Julia Programming Language
  • Scientific visualization, interactive figures and dashboards
  • Numerical modelling and simulation codes
  • Git, GitHub, Zenodo and other good practices for reproducible research code

And you? If you are interested in this work, please contact us.

Former group members

  • Radovan Bast - Founder of the RSE group at UiT, now at Oceanbox.
  • Geir Villy Isaksen - Founding member of the RSE group
  • Bente Barge - PhD in computational chemistry
  • Magnar Bjørgve - PhD in computational chemistry