[Users] Fwd: DCOMP Early Career Office Hours

Fri Jan 9 09:45:57 CST 2026

Dear all,

the event below may be interesting for some of you, showcasing different 
career opportunities in computational physics.

One of the speakers is Gabriele Bozzola who was a numerical relativist 
and author of the python package kuibit for analyzing NR data.

Best wishes

Helvi

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Dr. Helvi Witek
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

247 Loomis Lab
1110 W Green St
Urbana, IL 61801
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Subject: 	DCOMP Early Career Office Hours
Date: 	Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:22:43 -0600
From: 	APS DCOMP <apsunits at aps.org>
To: 	hwitek at illinois.edu

DCOMP Early Career Office Hours

Dear DCOMP member,

Recent years have seen a growing investment in computational research 
fields such as artificial intelligence, high performance computing, data 
science, biotech, physics simulators, and many others. This rapid 
expansion created a demand for specialized experts capable of 
maintaining and developing the complex computational software 
infrastructure. In response, the role of *Research Software Engineer 
*(RSE) has emerged as a distinct and increasingly important career path.

A research software engineer combines strong software engineering skills 
with an understanding of research workflows. RSEs build, maintain, and 
optimize software that enables scientific discovery, data analysis, 
simulations, machine learning workflows, and other computational 
research tasks. They often work in academia, national labs, research 
institutes, or R&D teams in industry.

Join us in our latest *DCOMP Office hours* 
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, where we explore the career prospects and opportunities associated 
with the RSE career path.

*What to Expect:*

This event takes form in a one-hour virtual “office hour” two speakers 
who are actively involved in the RSE community. They will share their 
experience in the field, discuss their current roles, and offer 
practical advice for navigating this career path.

The sessions will also include open Q&A segments, giving attendees the 
opportunity to ask questions and gain candid insights on this specific 
career path.

The coming session is scheduled for *January 21, 2026 at 11 a.m. ET*, 
and will host:

        Sandra Gesing

Executive Director of US-RSE and Senior Researcher at San Diego 
Supercomputing Center, where her work focuses on computational workflows 
as well as distributed and parallel computing which inherently leads to 
highly interdisciplinary projects. Sandra is also Director of the Center 
of Excellence for Science Gateways, where she aims at supporting users, 
developers and providers of science gateways, with keen interest in 
sustainability of research software, usability of computational methods 
and reproducibility of research results while advocating for open 
science initiatives.

        Gabriele Bozzola

Applied Scientist at the Amazon Center for Quantum Computing, where his 
work focus on the development of tools and techniques for the design and 
simulation of quantum chips aimed at quantum computing. Prior to joining 
Amazon, Gabriele was Senior Scientific Software Engineer for the CliMa 
project at Caltech, where he contributed to the development of robust 
and accurate open-source models for climate modeling in Julia.

*Event details:*

  * Participants can register to the event here
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  * The initiative is free and open to everyone. However we warmly
    encourage participants to become members of the Division of
    Computational Physics of the APS (DCOMP) to further support our
    community and benefit from continued involvement in its activities
    (APS Student Members may select up to two divisions and/or topical
    groups free of charge. The fee for students with more than two
    divisions and/or topical groups and for early career members is $10.
    Please visit the Engage website
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*Join the conversation! *Visit your unit's website 
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and log in to your unit's APS Engage discussion community. Ask for 
career advice, support or mentor members, learn about or share 
opportunities (e.g. meetings and funding opportunities), and more.

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